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Roger Hare @hareontherun.bsky.social Poetry scribbler, cricket lover, art appreciator living in the Midlands. (Not doing the Bluesky age verification protocols so please initiate any desired direct contact via open posting/tagging ( or by insta messaging) not via chat, thanks 😊)
VampFreaks @vampfreaks.com Vampire Freaks forum is a community for freaks and outcasts to be themselves, support each other and be weirdos together. https://vampfreaks.com/
Shanna's Treasure Trove! ~ @jami-jam.bsky.social I am Shanna Lee James, Author. Click on link to view my Author website. www.shannaleejamesauthor.com I am also an advocate for nature, wildlife, and animals. Click on link for 1st site: @2bdynamic.bsky.social
Acropolis Journal @acropolisjournal.bsky.social Acropolis Journal | Home for temples, ruins, darkness & myth | Online Poetry & Art Journal | Projects | EIC Louise Mather | SUBS OPEN https://acropolisjournaluk.wixsite.com/acropolisjournal
Meg Penvose Clark @megpenvose.bsky.social FROM THE RIVER TO THE SEA. There i said it Come and get me Birth Carbon 312.4 She/her Trying to do my bit by pressuring our ACT federal politicians to do better. The legal concept of transboundary climate harms is my new weapon Canberra Australia
Adam Rowan @shinjutnt.bsky.social Black lab dad. Writer and ambient musician. The Dynasty of the Divine out now! www.adamrowan.ccard.co Read my book (free in Kindle Unlimited): https://www.amazon.com/Dynasty-Divine-Adam-Rowan-ebook/dp/B0FS3G3WWH/ref
Ciaran De Buitlear | Gardeningwell @gardeningwell.ie Author of Nature’s Acre. Founder, Gardeningwell.ie — wildlife gardening in Ireland (Stamullen, Co Meath). Walled garden + school/community projects. Peat-free, pesticide-free. Native plants, pollinators. Media: gardeningwell.ie/press/media
Aaron Kent @godzillakent.bsky.social Working Class Poet/Writer | Publisher of @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social | The Working Classic (2023, the87press) | Awen Medal | Stroke Survivor | he/him | Agent: Kate Rizzo (Greene & Heaton)
Viscount Pontypandy 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @viscountpontypandy.bsky.social 🚫PRIVATE MESSAGES/CRYPTO/DONATION REQUESTS = INSTANT BLOCK🚫 Cymro. Annibyniaeth. Nationalist. Republican. Socialist. Retired Scientist. Support Referendums for 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿, 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Independence & 🇮🇪 (Re)Unification Plaid Cymru, SNP, Greens 🇵🇸Anti-zionist 🇪🇺Pro-EU 🏳️‍🌈LGBTQ
Anteroom (formerly The Winged Moon) @anteroompoetry.bsky.social Poetry through the cracks; we publish in print and online with amazing art and a vibrant weekly newsletter. Poetry competition with a cash prize opens on 14 Sept '26 EIC @jaimichellepoet.bsky.social Website: www.anteroompoetry.com
IDLES @idlesband.bsky.social https://linktr.ee/idlesband
Sharon @mrsrealism.bsky.social Librarian, literature nerd, reader. Dog-lover who likes to walk in all weathers. Slightly obsessed with garden birds. Here for books and nature not politics.
Dr Stevie Marsden @steviemarsden.bsky.social Lecturer and Programme Leader of MSc Publishing at Edinburgh Napier University. They/she. Book Sceptic. New book 'Publishing as a Creative Industry' (April 2025) https://www.routledge.com/Publishing-as-a-Creative-Industry/Marsden/p/book/9781032035505
Anna Nightingale @annanightingale.bsky.social Commissioning Editor for fiction @ Avon, an imprint of HarperCollins 🪩🍒💋
Jimena Gorráez @jimenagorraez.bsky.social Publicist, Daunt Books Publishing
Manchester Literature Festival @mcrlitfest.bsky.social Manchester Literature Festival presents inspiring live literature, poetry & culture. Check out our Spring & Summer events at www.manchesterliteraturefestival.co.uk
James McConnachie @jamesmcconnachie.bsky.social Writer. Reviews non-fiction for the Sunday Times, edits The Author magazine. Books about the Kamasutra, Conspiracy Theories, Nepal and, next, a Himalayan mountain. Books, singing, wildlife, languages, running...
Cristy Clark @cristyclark.bsky.social Associate Professor (human rights & environmental law). I’m interested in legal geography, and water, climate & spatial justice. Co-author of The Lawful Forest (2022), author of Legal Geographies of Water (2025). Naarm. She/her
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
Sarah Mallory @sarahmallory.bsky.social Award winning author of historical romantic adventures. Also writes as Melinda Hammond
Martin Doyle @martindoyle.bsky.social Books Editor of The Irish Times; author of Dirty Linen: The Troubles in My Home Place (Merrion Press)
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
Garrett Carr @garrettcarr.bsky.social The Boy From the Sea is out now and translated into over a dozen languages. “Full of lightly worn wisdom and wit. It is a joy" – Sunday Times. www.garrettcarr.net
Simon Kővesi @kovesi.bsky.social Professor of English & Scottish Literature, Head of School, Critical Studies, University of Glasgow. Research working-class literature & Romantic-period cultures. Editor, John Clare Society Journal.
Pádhraic Quinn @quinnpadhraic.bsky.social 2025 Irish Book Awards Winner for New Irish Writing Best Short Story 2025/26 London Library Emerging Writer https://m.independent.ie/entertainment/new-irish-writing/new-irish-writing-all-the-birch-trees-were-waving-by-padhraic-quinn/a1765826609.html
The Bee @beelitmag.bsky.social A home for working-class readers and writers https://thebeemagazine.com
Manderley Press @manderleypress.bsky.social Indie publisher of beautiful titles inspired by buildings, cities and landmarks. Sometimes wears a book as a hat ManderleyPress.com Insta @manderleypress Latest book: manderleypress.com/shop/p/moonismaking
Brick Lane Bookshop @bricklanebookshop.bsky.social London's Independent Bookshop of 2024. Fiction, London Books, Non-Fiction, Poetry, Travel, Classics, Children's Books, Cards, Totes, and Short Story Prize. https://linktr.ee/bricklanebookshop
Alan Cleaver @postalpathsguy.bsky.social Author of books on UK footpaths. My book, Postal Paths, is due out April 2025 detailing the route used by rural postmen and women in the 19th and 20th Centuries. I live in Cumbria, UK. Follow me if you love walking footpaths. https://linktr.ee/postalpaths
Sarah Crown @sarahcrown.bsky.social Director of Communication at Arts Council England (all views my own). Books; politics; journalism; walks; trees. Won’t balk at the occasional cat
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/
Rick O'Shea @rickoshea.bsky.social Presenter of RTE's Arts show Arena on @rteradio1.bsky.social. Runs Ireland's largest book club, patron @epilepsyireland.bsky.social, board of Fighting Words NI. Quizzer. Rarely here... Links: https://linktr.ee/rickoshea
Eleanor Fitzsimons @eleanorfitzsimons.bsky.social Writer/Researcher. KeatsShelley Essay Prize, Rubery Book Award. Author Wilde's Women. Life & Loves of E. Nesbit, Selected Articles from The Woman’s World. Here for books, art, nature, laughter & tranquility.
Joanne - Portobello Book Blog @portybelle.bsky.social Scottish #bookblogger, chatting about the #books I've loved. Nature watcher, keen cook, always on the go and love living by the sea! www.portobellobookblog.com
Farah Ghuznavi @farahghuznavi.bsky.social I'm a writer, development worker, newspaper columnist and translator, who tells stories in order to get the characters to move out of her head onto the page. I remain an optimistic idealist despite the occasional challenges of such an approach!
Lit Hub @literaryhub.bsky.social A daily literary website highlighting the best in fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and criticism. https://linktr.ee/lithub_
Sylvia Leatham @sylvialeatham.bsky.social Award-winning author. Debut spec-fic romcom ‘Chaos Theory’ with Storm Publishing. Rep’ed by Liverpool Lit. Silver at Farnham Lit Audiobook Awards; SL'ed for The Letter Review, Watson Little Indie Novella; LL’ed for Mslexia. https://linktr.ee/SylviaLeatham
Hannah Fox @hannah-sakura.bsky.social PhD researcher interested in world literature, literary representations of print cultures, and censorship. Coffee lover, plant collector, bibliomaniac.
con questi nuovi ritmi americani (she/her) 🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸🏳 @racheledini.bsky.social Lurcher mum+newly redundant lecturer in US literature.Writes on waste, gender, housework, appliances, ads, politics of nostalgia. Looking for new collaborators Books: http://tinyurl.com/3rf4fr & http://tinyurl.com/3er6t3h9 Founder http://literarywaste.com
Wendy Pratt @wendypratt.bsky.social Author: The Ghost Lake Poet: Blackbird Singing at Dusk Editor: Spelt Magazine https://linktr.ee/wendypratt
Jenny Shepherd @green--jenny.bsky.social Biocentric and social/economic justice campaigns in Calderdale, West Yorkshire
Wendy Erskine @wednesdayerskin.bsky.social THE BENEFACTORS Sceptre. Waterstones Irish Book of the Year. Shortlisted Irish Novel of the Year, Best British Audio Book. It’s out now. dance move/sweet home/stinging fly/picador/well I just kind of like it/PVA Books
Martin Cullen @brixtonmc.bsky.social Friends of the Earth worker bee. Bigging up the 'vironment. Climate justice is racial justice. Posts are all me.
Nigel Monaghan @nigelmonaghan-nh.bsky.social Geologist / palaeontologist in Dublin, retired museum curator National Museum of Ireland, still digging... mostly in 18-19th centuries
Julie @juliefitzpat.bsky.social Public librarian, wife, mother, gardener, birder, cat mom. Love music, history, journalism & politics. Proud AFSCME member; union strong! Abolish ICE and love thy neighbor.
The Reading Glass @thereadingglass.bsky.social Rebecca • UK • Posh old bird 63 • Award winning artist • Qualified cricket umpire • Vegan 30+ years • Knitter • Kicked cancer’s butt #booksky #books
Rosie Garland @rosiegarlandwriter.bsky.social Writer, March Violet, secret medievalist, FRSL✨ Not cynical; just been taking notes. Novels:The Fates(Quercus) Palace of Curiosities, Vixen, Night Brother(Borough) Poems:Nine Arches March Violets: @marchvioletsband.bsky.social http://www.rosiegarland.com
Patrick walsh @speakerconolly.bsky.social Associate Professor of eighteenth century Irish History, co- director Trinity Colonial Legacies Project. All views my own and not of those my employer.
Katja Bruisch @kbruisch.bsky.social Environmental historian, Trinity College Dublin. Author of "Burning Swamps: Peat and the Forgotten Margins of Russia's Fossil Economy" (CUP 2025) & "Als das Dorf noch Zukunft war: Agrarismus und Expertise zwischen Zarenreich und Sowjetunion" (Böhlau 2014).
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!
Julia @chiaroscuro1897.bsky.social Poet | Writer | Freelance Art Historian UK https://juliabiggs1.wixsite.com/juliabiggs Pamphlet available from Salò Press: https://www.salopress.com/store/nasty-objects-julia-biggs/
Martha Carlson @marthacarlson.bsky.social Preferably outside. Stage IV HER2+ breast cancer since 2015. Occasionally ragey cancer advocate. Write about my experiences for Cure + co-host of Our MBC Life podcast
Adrian Slatcher @adrianslatcher.bsky.social Manchester-based writer. Short story collection "Loners" out now from Confingo publishing. More details adrianslatcher.wordpress.com or subscribe https://adrianslatcher.substack.com/
Bluemoose Books @ofmooseandmen.bsky.social Indy publisher of award winning literary fiction You can order books here : www.bluemoosebooks.com
Lucy Allen-Goss @lucyallengoss.bsky.social Medievalist, feminist, dabbles in horticulture. Writing more and more about infertility/reproduction. Yorkshire. https://lucyallengoss.substack.com/ My book is Female Desire in Chaucer's Legend of Good Women and Middle English Romance
Geoff Cox @geoffcox.bsky.social Working class author (memoir, NNF and folk-horror), better kept outdoors (whatever the weather) and well watered. Ageing runner with a passion for words, wild places and archeology. "Traceless" (2020) Pub. Little Peak
Maíra Mendes Galvão @mmendesgalvao.bsky.social Translator. PhD candidate @ UMass Amherst. Early Modern Iberia, Translation Theory, Premodern Women. FLAD/BNP Summer Fellow 2025.
EarthworkBec @earthworkbec.bsky.social Landscape Archaeologist, UK. #EarthworkSurvey | #Prehistory #LandscapeArchaeology Nature lover. Wanderer & ponderer. Dreaming of Swallowdale, seed cake & tame adventures, oh and hachures! 😅 🌿🏺Own views. She/her
Writerlygirl 👩🏻‍💻🫶🏻💚✨📚🍁🎃 @writerlygirl.bsky.social Just a girl in the world. Reader, writer, lover of blankets, chocolate, and cats 🐈‍⬛
Catherine Roberts @alwaystotheside.bsky.social I like ponies🐎, books📚, archaeology🏺. Mediocre rider, unfocused reader and currently studying for MA Archaeology at University of Reading (p/t mature). 🇬🇧 Also @adventuresintheoutback on Insta and @woman_much_missed on Insta(Bookstagram).
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
Caroline Davies @carolinemdavies.bsky.social Poet and poetry enthusiast
Claire Nolan @drclairenolan.bsky.social Researcher, archaeologist, heritage & wellbeing, social & ecocultural value of archaeology, prehistory/deep time heritage, landscape……….. Web: https://ucc-ie.academia.edu/ClaireNolan
Tim McKay @timmckay.bsky.social Bird & nature lover; book addict; educator, astronomer, physicist; happiest outdoors. Born at 320 ppm.
Astrid Aillume @aillume.bsky.social A detective. Astrid Aillume's New Case: A Billionaire's Mystery Cracking a case is like salty liquorice. Surprising at first,but ultimately addictive.
Matthew Stewart @roguestrands.bsky.social Weaving ways through poetry. Second full collection, ‘Whatever You Do, Just Don’t’, a Poetry Society Book of the Year 2023, available from HappenStance Press.
Nicola Chester @nicolawriting.bsky.social Nature. Writer. Reader. Radical Rural. Guardian Country Diary, BBC Countryfile, RSPB. Award winning author, On Gallows Down & Ghosts of the Farm Climate Fic Prize Judge 2025 North Wessex. https://nicolachester.com/ https://linktr.ee/nicolachesterwriting
Gregory Norminton @gregorynorminton.bsky.social Yet another writer: THE GHOST WHO BLED (2017), THE DEVIL'S HIGHWAY (2018), THE REPUBLIC OF BREATH, THE SPOILS & other stories, SWEENEY'S PROGRESS (forthcoming). Environmentalist. Lives in Sheffield. https://substack.com/@gregorynorminton
Robert Macfarlane @robgmacfarlane.bsky.social Books: Is A River Alive? (May ‘25), Underland, The Lost Words, The Old Ways etc | Films: River, Mountain, Upstream | Music: The Moon Also Rises, Lost In The Cedar Wood, etc Nature, climate, people. Prof at Cambridge. https://linktr.ee/robmacfarlane
Anne Louise Avery @annelouiseavery.bsky.social Writer and Art Historian. Old Fox stories. Edward M.Bannister catalogue raisonne and research. Reynard the Fox and Fox for All Seasons published by Bodleian Publishing. Oxford & Dorset. Linktree: https://linktr.ee/AnneLouiseAvery
The Unhurried Reader 📚🦊🇺🇦🇬🇱 @theunhurriedreader.bsky.social Reader, writer, nature-lover, garden-potterer, history-dabbler, selenophile. Distracted by birds. 🐦‍⬛ Supports the RNLI. theunhurriedreader.substack.com @the_unhurried_reader on Instagram #InvisibleIllnessVisibleLives #Nordlichtberaubt
Kit de Waal @kitdewaal.com Optimist, writer, swearer. common person. Co-founder Big Book Weekend with @MollyFlatt. Proud Primadonna. Professor, University of Leicester. FRSL. Photo by Paul Chambers. No DMs please. To email use contact@kitdewaal.com
p.a. morbid @marcusagonistes.bsky.social Poet. Proser. Middlesbrough historian. Terraced house lover. Outsider artist/musician. Photographer etc
VERVE Poetry Press @vervepoetrypress.bsky.social Prize-winning #Brum based poetry indie making high octane collections and vervey pamphlets. Related to @Vervepoetryfest (did you guess?) 😍 https://vervepoetrybookshop.com/vpp
David Naimon @davidnaimon.bsky.social Host of the Between the Covers podcast & Crafting with Ursula series, co-author of Ursula K. Le Guin: Conversations on Writing. Podcast: https://milkweed.org/between-the-covers YouTube channel: www.youtube.com/@BetweentheCovers-DavidNaimon
adrienne maree brown @adriennemareebrown.bsky.social writer. gardener of healing ideas. emergent strategist, pleasure activist. earthling. good witch. homecoming southerner. https://linktr.ee/adriennemareebrown
The Nature Chronicles Prize @naturechronicles.bsky.social A global, biennial £10k prize, originating in the Lake District for essay-length, non-fiction nature writing. www.naturechroniclesprize.com
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
Phil Wood @blaurock.bsky.social Writer| Political Theology, history, poetry| Birder, Anabaptist-Mennonite, rejoiner, Marxist, Green| Trees should count as FB friends.
Leona Medlin @leonamedlin.bsky.social I'm working on a non-fiction proposal for my nearly-finished Japan book. Various poems and stories are out on submission to magazines, as is 'Peace Bell', an essay. Can you guess what 'Peace Bell' is about?
Jane Fraser Writer @janefraserwriter.bsky.social Writer in Gower. Novels ‘Weights and Measures’ & ‘Advent’ (winner of Paul Torday Memorial Prize) Short story collections ‘The South Westerlies’ & ‘Connective Tissue’ published by SALT. Rep'd by Gaia Banks, Sheil Land Associates. www.janefraserwriter.com
Ju (Julian) @hool415.bsky.social Poetry stuff only. Nominated for a Forward Prize, Best Of The Net (Twice) and Two Pushcart Awards. Black Bough (Silver Branch Poet), East Ridge Review (Featured Poet), Joint 1st BB New Simile Competition.
Ian Seed @ianseedauthor.bsky.social Author: Forgetfulness, My Outsize Hank Williams Cowboy Hat, Night Window, New York Hotel (TLS Book of the Year), Makers of Empty Dreams. Translator: Pierre Reverdy, Max Jacob, Gëzim Hajdari, Ivano Fermini. www.ianseed.co.uk
Kate Nicholls @katenicholls1.bsky.social Author, homeschool consultant. Lives in Rome. No DM’s pls. https://www.katenicholls.org/ https://www.saltpublishing.com/products/the-maternal-element-9781784633998
@majlh77.bsky.social @majlh77.bsky.social Music geek. Healthcare worker and nature lover, because we all need a good life. Author of “Samantha’s Voice.” The young girl who tackles the fentanyl crisis and kicks some terrorist ass!!
E. J. Nash @ejnash.bsky.social Things that bring me joy: Writing, reading, lasagna | Words in CBC, The Globe and Mail, Nature, and elsewhere | Say hi at ejnashwrites.com
Welsh Academic Press @welshacademicpress.bsky.social Wales' premier independent academic publisher since 1994. History & Politics (🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇮🇪)•Nordic & Baltic Studies•Medieval Celtic Studies• Public Affairs•Education• www.welsh-academic-press.wales "Welsh in Identity, International in Outlook"
PEN International @peninternational.bsky.social Defending freedom of expression and promoting literature worldwide since 1921.
Welsh Refugee Council @welshrefcouncil.bsky.social Wales' national charity supporting refugees and asylum seekers in Wales. Elusen genedlaethol Cymru sy’n cefnogi ffoaduriaid a cheiswyr lloches yng Nghymru. https://wrc.wales/
Nathan Williams @nathwself.bsky.social Works @Promocymru Development, Digital, Design. Writes a fair bit. Moving through dog walking, climbing, BJJ.
Athina Summerbell @athinasummerbell.bsky.social Head of Communications, Engagement & Policy at Welsh Refugee Council 👉All views are my own👈 Social justice advocate, consumer of coffee and true crime podcasts👌 Cymro 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Polski 🇵🇱
Gill Lewis @gill-lewis.bsky.social Children’s author - wild scribbler - trying to protect seals and seabirds in local bay from disturbance
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