Mr. Joshua @pantspants.bsky.social classically trained artist.
theartofpants.com
Christopher Tayler @mansfieldvonrank.bsky.social Writer and editor. New York Review of Books, Harper's, London Review of Books, Financial Times, Guardian etc. Robert Silvers Prize for Literary Criticism 2025. Paul the Psychic Octopus Memorial Award 2021.
Hayley Gullen @hayleygullen.com “This Might Surprise You: A Breast Cancer Story” is available to buy now! https://linktr.ee/ThisMightSurpriseYou
Rep: Julia Silk at Greyhound Literary.
insta: HayleyGullen
www.hayleygullen.com
Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social Historian, writer, broadcaster. She/her. Latest book, FALLEN IDOLS, shortlisted for the Wolfson History Prize 2022. HISTORY’S SECRET HEROES and THE LUCAN OBSESSION on BBC Radio 4. One of the Silk Road Slippers https://www.silkroadslippers.com
Lucy Caldwell @lucycaldwell.bsky.social Writer of short story collections Multitudes, Intimacies, Openings, Devotions and novels inc. These Days. Regular masterclass series at Faber Academy.
The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social Writer about law and policy at The Empty City blog and elsewhere.
About lore and culture at The Busy Town.
Birmingham/London. Janeite. #AVFC
www.theemptycity.com
(Account sometimes deactivated when not in use.)
Deborah @deborahzafer.bsky.social Reading, writing, rabbits 🐇 ✡️
Director of European Writers Salon @saloneurope.bsky.social
London
www.deborahzafer.com
https://substack.com/@deborahzafer
Rue @rue-after-hours.bsky.social peckham. freelance illustrator - ink, watercolour, small print runs.
she/her, 25. shoegaze, a24 horror, cheese on toast as a lifestyle.
mdni · softer stuff → https://www.fanvue.com/rue.after.hours?free_trial=0b56026e-52dd-4c3c-a772-e06aefaba0c0 🖤
Maria Crawford @mariacrawford.bsky.social Deputy Books Editor, Financial Times
Matthew Parkinson-Bennett @matthewpb.bsky.social Publisher, Little Island Books @littleislandbooks.bsky.social. The best new Irish writing for young readers.
Chris Barrett @mrchrisbarrett.bsky.social Cameraman/Librarian/Music Lover
Cycling/Walking Everywhere
https://heathcoatstreet.blogspot.com/
Nottingham, UK
Simon Brackenborough @sbrackenborough.bsky.social Londoner and writer on classical music. Interested in the arts, history, nature, reading, coffee, vegetarian food, and active travel infrastructure.
https://mosaicoftheair.substack.com/
Alison @alisondennison.bsky.social @AlisonDennison on twitter (with the tree pic)
art history, TV, Sparks, film history, Marx Brothers
Caspar Henderson @casparhenderson.bsky.social Award-winning knees https://linktr.ee/casparhenderson
Rory McCarthy @roryisconfused.bsky.social Hey, it’s Rory. I like fiction and I like films and I like people. “Well, sir, I guess there’s just a meanness in this world”.
Douglas Cheape @douglascheape.bsky.social An idiot, but not one of the useful kind.
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.
June Caldwell @junec.bsky.social Writing Place, Writing Planet, UCD & iCRAG 2026 | Lamplight Fellowship 2025 | Literature Bursary Award 2025 | Moth Short Story Prize 2024 | 'Somebody' exhibition, MoLi 2020-2021 | 📖 Room Little Darker 2018/17 | https://papervisualart.com/product/pva-17/
Stephen Graham @stephengraham.bsky.social PhD researcher: identity and development in University Service Unit cadets. A bounder, cad, rakehell and villain. Edinburgh.
carmine bee-eater @cafeconlethe.bsky.social 
Jules Winter @roq11.bsky.social I love my friends and books and am a nerd for languages and their history. Also movies, photography, sports and Billie the Cat.
Grant McGaheran @grantmcgaheran.bsky.social From Sheffield, in Tokyo since 2000.
Books, walks, modernism, records, cats. 
Phil Makepeace @philmakepeace.bsky.social Chess coach, chess consultant, fun uncle
www.makepeacewithchess.com
Sarah Dempster @dempster2000.bsky.social Writer of nonsenses for “the wireless”, contributor to Private Eye & the Guardian. I like books.
Lauren Elkin @laurenelkin.bsky.social Author, translator, vocal and pissed off SEND mum
Paris<>London
She/her
Gairloch Times @gairlochtimes.org.uk Publishing non-profit community news about the Gairloch area of the North West Highlands of Scotland since 1978. Get our free Wester Ross Round-up email at: https://gairlochtimes.org.uk
Follow us on Mastodon & the fediverse: @news@gairlochtimes.org.uk
Steve Perfect @notbadconsidering.bsky.social Artist
Jane Rushton @janerushtonart.bsky.social Artist and crofter, inspired by my environment, and always looking to the North
www.janerushton.co.uk
Londonopia @londonopia.bsky.social Celebrating London. News and history. #London
londonopia.co.uk
Rich Neville @richneville.bsky.social Still holding out the hope that my life up to now has just been Derren Brown trying to teach me an important lesson.
Matt Greene @arealmattgreene.bsky.social Van Occupanther Party Liaison. New novel, THE DEFINITIONS, coming 2025 with Dead Ink / Henry Holt
https://linktr.ee/arealmattgreene
Caroline Clark @cclarklewes.bsky.social July 2026: What Lies Ahead and Other Essays, Black Herald Press: https://www.blackheraldpress.com/what-lies-ahead
Own Sweet Time, CB editions (2022)
Sovetica, CB editions (2021)
Saying Yes in Russian, Agenda Editions (2012)
Forever Louise Brooks @foreverlouiseb1.bsky.social Louise and Old Hollywood: Sweet spot 1925-1939
Cold War Steve @coldwarsteve.bsky.social Artist
Coldwarsteve.com
F.L. Everett @fliceverett.bsky.social Author & journalist. Writing more books.
🎄MURDER AT MISTLETOE MANOR
🗡️THE EDIE YORK MYSTERIES
🏰 DREAMS OF THE SCOTTISH HIGHLANDS
Grise l’Indécis @wildobliquities.bsky.social small duck energy
S.A. Franco @sylviafranco.bsky.social I am moved by visual arts; I believe our genius lies in our imagination. my images, unless otherwise noted.
Andrew Blair @andrewblair.co.uk Software developer, poet, and only ever person to not be wrong about Doctor Who. Writer of 'The R-Pattz Facttz 2020' and 'polblar Tmolkop'. I was the first person to see comedy potential in the Vengabus.
He/him
https://andrewblair.co.uk
Josh Spero @joshspero.ft.com Wealth editor, Financial Times. I like swimming, classical music and cryptic crosswords. Working on a memoir about my earlier life at a magazine for the very rich. he/him 🏳️🌈 josh.spero@ft.com
John O’Farrell @johnofarrell.bsky.social Author/comedy scriptwriter.
Mrs Doubtfire musical (UK tour starts Aug), Just For One Day, the Live Aid Musical (tour starts early 2027) Most recent novel ‘Family Politics’. New non-fiction book out next year.
P.G. Wodelouse @pgwodelouse.bsky.social ‘The seen and the unseen’ is my collection of eleven short supernatural and folk horror stories. Please consider buying: https://amzn.eu/d/08DmGP7U
Book cover and design by Ray Newman. Foreword by Jamie Evans. Buy their brilliant books!
Rob H&ynes @robonabike.eurosky.social We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stats.
Oxford, UK
Isabel Rogers @isabelrogers.bsky.social Writer. Relatively chirpy. Stockwell Park Orchestra series, and sometimes poetry.
isabelrogers619 on instagram
https://farragobooks.com/book-series/the-stockwell-park-orchestra-series
isabelrogers.org
Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social Historian of modern Britain, singer and political nerd. Author of "Yes to Europe! The 1975 Referendum & Seventies Britain". "A jaw-dislocating page turner"(Andrew Marr). Deputy-director @mileendinstitute.bsky.social, Reader @QMHistory
Jess Gulliver @jessgulliver.bsky.social
Maybe tomorrow, I’ll want to settle down. Until tomorrow, I’ll just keep moving on.
Occasional publicist; accidental poet; proper doodler.
London/Newcastle.
Deborah Schauffler @schauffd22.bsky.social 
James Butler @piercepenniless.bsky.social Writes & talks @lrb.co.uk
Dr Florence H R Scott @florencehrscott.bsky.social Historian of queenship in early medieval England. Based in York UK.
Antiracist. Disabled. Non-binary. Marxist. Free Palestine 🇵🇸
Author of Ælfgif-who?, biographies of medieval women: florencehrs.substack.com
Agent: @tomkillingbeck.bsky.social
Irene @derbren.bsky.social books, bikes, cats, cheese, and cinemas. Non-practising German. Unreliable narrator, ready for my close-up. Probably have a crush on you. For more, go here: https://linktr.ee/DerBren
Valéry Giscard d'Estaing @diffractiongrating.bsky.social I am Iridescent on Twitter but some random took that here.
François Mitterrand retire bitch.
(I'm Australian) (they/them) 🏳️🌈
David Willoughby @davidwilloughby.bsky.social Gateshead-born London-dwelling arts journalist, film reviewer for The Crack Magazine, MDANT, leftist, cyclist, reference understander, fox enthusiast, toiler at the content coalface, severyanin, liker of nice things, ‘good hair'.
Ian Willey @ianwilley.bsky.social Artist, designer, technician and tutor, helping people of all ages to make things.
ianwilley.artstation.com
wastecraft.info
Jonathan Page @jonathanpage-bw.bsky.social Blue Woman, the fictional life story of a Welsh artist, is published by @weatherglassbooks.bsky.social. Represented by Cara Lee Simpson at @slaliterary.bsky.social. https://jonathanpage.info. He/him.
Houman Barekat @houmanbarekat.bsky.social ‘Après le déluge, moi’ - French flooding investigator
https://www.houmanbarekat.com
TnmntTiles @tnmnttiles.bsky.social An archive of historical design. Discoveries from Scottish tenements & beyond. Originally a Twitter project, est 2015. Now found on Instagram, FB, & here!
Images taken by myself, unless otherwise credited. Happy to share your finds? Give us a tag.
Joanna Wyld @joannawyld.bsky.social Writer, editor, librettist. Writing a biography of Vernon Elliott and a radio play about Handel and Hendrix.
http://notes-upon-notes.com/
Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu Nomad of the Time Streams.
Wet Plate Photographer
Pyrotechnical Wizard of Doom
Sardonicus.eu
Patrick Christie @patrickchristie.bsky.social Writer with work in The London Magazine, The Oxonian Review, Litro Magazine, Review 31, Necessary Fiction, The Mechanics’ Institute Review and elsewhere.
https://www.patrickchristie.co.uk
Elizabeth Baines @elizabethbaines.bsky.social Writer of short stories, novels, plays.
http://www.elizabethbaines.co.uk
Latest publication: Five Different Stories About One Thing (Confingo). https://www.confingopublishing.uk/product-page/five-different-stories-about-one-thing-by-elizabeth-baines
James @zemblamatic.bsky.social Bayesian priority
Glenn Moore @thenewsatglenn.bsky.social Comedian, and nephew to three gorgeous uncles. Enquiries: CGagon@avalonuk.com
Glennmoorecomedy.com
YouTube.com/@buttonboyspodcast
Christina Martin @christinamartin.bsky.social The Viz one
AKA Evie
Council worker and writer
Both jobs death related
Ashes to Admin and Get Ahead of Being Dead out now
Locate International ambassador
https://linktr.ee/eviekingwrites
Lee Rourke @leerourke.bsky.social Author: GLITCH | VANTABLACK | THE CANAL | VULGAR THINGS | VARROA DESTRUCTOR | EVERYDAY. Contributing Editor: @3ammagazine. Mancunian: #mufc Agent: @Donaldwin_
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
There Must And Shall Be Aspirin @boscobel1975.bsky.social There’s more to life than books you know…
#MDANT
Nagihan Haliloğlu @nhaliloglu.bsky.social Former Bishop of Oxford. Take me to ceilidh.
Wool-Encased Tea Addict @passeriform.bsky.social Mostly a feminist liberal screaming leftie fangirl. No tolerance for fascism. AO3: Rhyolight Passeriform@Vivaldi.net She/her, cis, historically het. Probably older than you are. Tea. Can't quit the NHL. Western MA. (Photo by Inge Morath, 1957)
matthewcr @matthewcr.bsky.social Here for art, books, film, music, comedy, food, football, cricket, history, old newspapers, birds, mountains and more.
James Jenks @jenksy.bsky.social Artist.
Storyteller.
Awkward.
Hassinator @hassinator.bsky.social freewheeling renaissance man, music video maven, greedy boi, a good looking rebel who lives life by his own rules.
Halloweeno @vimtotime.bsky.social Never alone!
https://linktr.ee/hellohalloweeno?utm_source=linktree_admin_share
David Gaffney @ggaffa.bsky.social Writer, Arts Council manager, musician. Concrete Fields (Salt 2023) Out Of The Dark (Confingo 2021) graphic novel Rivers (Top Shelf 2021) www.davidgaffney.org
Laura Cumming @lauracummingart.bsky.social Art Critic The Observer. Critic of the Year 2024. Thunderclap - Book of 2024, @SaltireBook, Non-Fiction Winner @WritersPrize. On Chapel Sands, The Vanishing Man @ChattoBooks. Rep @pew_literary
trouteyes @trouteyes.bsky.social Captain of the Good Team. Artist, Visionary, None of your Businessman, and paperback writer for kids.
c.c. o'hanlon @ccohanlon.bsky.social vagabond. mendicant. diarist. wreck.
Un de ces féroces infirmes retour des pays chauds.
"So here is us, on the raggedy edge..."
(from the film 'Serenity', 2005)
ReynaerdeJames @reynaerdejames.bsky.social thingy thingy rap rap
Salt Books @saltpublishing.com One of the UK's leading indie publishers. High-impact fiction and brand-led non-fiction. Beautiful books you won’t forget. Available in all good bookshops.
Kavey 😁 @kavey.bsky.social Food, Travel & Life | Greedy Londoner transplanted to Wales – city girl turned country mouse | Writer, Photographer, Potter & Business Analyst | She/her | Lefty Woke Pro-EU | Free 🇵🇸 & 🇺🇦 | 💍@petedrinks.com | Next trip: back to Malta
Writes at kaveyeats.com
Mark Bowles @markabowles.bsky.social Writer. All My Precious Madness published by Galley Beggar 2024; Goldsmiths Prize Shortlist, Authors Club Prize Shortlist, James Tait Black Prize shortlist. How Do People Stay the Same published 2026, Galley Beggar.
https://www.creativewritingtuition.com/
Vicky MacKenzie @vickymackenzie.bsky.social Writer, cat lady, wrote a novel about medieval mystics, forthcoming novel about John Ruskin. Aspiring anchoress. https://victoriamackenzie.net/
Substack: https://victoriamackenzie.substack.com/
Aidan Cottrell Boyce @aidancb.bsky.social The End of Nightwork | @grantabooks | @matthewmarland
@grantrintoul.bsky.social @grantrintoul.bsky.social 
Adam Marek @adammarek.bsky.social Short story writer. Kent birder. Copywriter for good causes. Occasional futurist for SciFutures. More on my books at www.adammarek.co.uk
Glennyrodge @glennyrodge.bsky.social I like to wear flares and do the jokes. Bit of a woke prick. He/him. 
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/
Cʜʀɪs Sᴛᴇɪɴ @chrisstein.bsky.social Guitar with Blondie 50 years. Wrote those songs. Writer, photographer, animist etc
'Of what is past, or passing, or to come' 🌀
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
James Meek @jamesmeek.bsky.social Writer, London
Tim Harford @timharford.ft.com FT columnist, BBC journalist, author, host of Cautionary Tales, professional nerd.
Steve Rosenberg @bbcstever.bsky.social BBC Russia Editor, Moscow
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
Ruby Cowling @rubycowling.bsky.social THIS PARADISE: Short stories // Boiler House Press // http://tinyurl.com/RCTParadise // Shortlisted Edge Hill Prize; Longlisted Orwell Prize //
Full of state and woe
Kirkdale Bookshop @kirkdalebooks.bsky.social indie bookshop in Sydenham, SE London | open since 1966
| new books | second hand books | children's books | gifts |
Mon-Sat 9:30-5 Sun 12-4 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
Scratch Books @scratchbooks.bsky.social A small press dedicated to the short story. Claustrophiles…
Jarred McGinnis @jarredmcginnis.bsky.social 'Maybe America isn't ready for a superstar in a wheelchair.' - Ian MacKaye
New book! Out with Harvill in 2026. THERE IS NO MEANT TO BE.
Debut novel THE COWARD w. @canongate.co.uk
jarredmcginnis.com
Susan Tomaselli 🍉 🏳️🌈 @stomaselli.bsky.social WiP: TRACES (novel in essays) | former writer-in-residence at Maynooth 2020/21 | current editor gorse journal & Gorse Editions. She/her.
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