Paula Hammond @writerpaula.bsky.social Feature editor (filmjuice), author, artist, vegan, she/her. #sherlockian #whovian. Also on:
https://x.com/writer_paula
https://www.instagram.com/writerpaula
https://writerpaula.picfair.com & Alamy
Bethan Davies @bethan-d.bsky.social Working my way through golden age crime fiction whilst working in EDI and health equity
Lucy Brouwer @notrock.bsky.social Small thoughts and big ideas. Tour guide, researcher, reader, procrastinator. Nottinghamshire & environs. WatsonFothergillWalk.com
Amurder Mark @amurdermark.eurosky.social Discussing the Golden Age of Detective Fiction, unicycling, juggling, backgammon, and crowd photos I'm in, but mostly the first topic. Cozy, old-fashioned amurder. Lots and lots of amurder.
Companion account to @amusementmark.eurosky.social.
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
James Bailey @drjamesbailey.bsky.social Writer from Manchester. LIKE A CAT LOVES A BIRD, my biography of Muriel Spark, out now! 🐈⬛
https://lnk.to/LikeaCatLovesaBird
Instagram.com/drjamesbailey
Jason M Thornberry @jason-m-thornberry.bsky.social THE FINISH LINE (Sand and Gravel Press) • novel & memoir forthcoming • Blood Type: Curry • Leeds United • Anti-AI
#LUFC
jmthornberry.wordpress.com
sandandgravelpress.com/store/the-finish-line-jason-thornberry
@sickroll.bsky.social @sickroll.bsky.social Part time artist, full time sick person 
Dominic Broomfield-McHugh (he/him) @profdombm.bsky.social Professor in Musicology at the University of Sheffield
LeftLion Magazine Nottingham @leftlion.bsky.social Where Nottingham Meets.
Shouting arts and culture in the home of Robin Hood since 2003.
Crime Writers of Color @crimewoc.bsky.social A group of over 350 of today and tomorrow’s crime writers of color. Follow to stay up-to-date on our new releases, recognitions & other good news.
Crimewritersofcolor.com
Quentin Nield @quentinnield.bsky.social UK Audio Tech Consultant|Studio Builder|University Technical Tutor|Broadcast Engineer|Radio station Management
@goldsmithsaudio.bsky.social @thisisriverside.bsky.social
@ChoonsRadioUK.bsky.social
radiostudios.co.uk
Charlotte Yule @shadowsandcobwebs.bsky.social PhD & Lecturer at UOS. Researching Cornish landscape & becoming in the early twentieth century works of Woolf, du Maurier and Christie. Other interests: spatiality, decay/ruination, psychogeography, wildness & folk history.
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.
International Crime Fiction Association @intcrimeficassoc.bsky.social International #interdisciplinary network of #crime #academics, #researchers and practitioners.
Upcoming events: #CapCrim13: Crime Fiction, Conflict, and Representation.
Bamberg, Germany. 25-27 June '26
https://sites.google.com/view/icfa/home
Jessica Meyer @thehistorygirl1.bsky.social Historian, cook, gardener, knitter, reader, mother, wife, not in any particular order.
Kathryn Maude @krmaude.bsky.social Head of Medieval Records at The National Archives
Rosemond Cates @rosemondcates.bsky.social PhD candidate @ut-dallas. 19c Anglophone Lit. Posts my own/reposts not endorsements
Nathanael T. Booth (he/him) @nathanaeltbooth.bsky.social Pretty damn queer.
nathanaeltbooth.com
Author, GOD AND THE GREAT DETECTIVE: ELLERY QUEEN’S STRUGGLE WITH THE DIVINE, 1945-1965 (McFarland 2023)
Co-host, THE PROJECTIONIST’S LENDING LIBRARY
Academic 
Dean James @ddjames59.bsky.social Retired librarian, cozy mystery writer, NYT bestselling author.
New Nottingham Journal @nottinghamjournal.bsky.social An annual print literary journal featuring short fiction, poetry and creative non-fiction from around the world.
Sarah Matthews @sarahmatthews.bsky.social Reader, Braille tutor, interested in assistive tech, publishing and accessible art.
Trying to use this new place while totally blind so please be patient with me and add alt text to your photos
Storygraph: https://app.thestorygraph.com/profile/
Agatha's Unsung Sleuths @christietecs.bsky.social Occasional thoughts on Agatha Christie's lesser-recurring detectives.
⭐️ Please be aware posts might include unintentional spoilers ⭐️
Vanda Wilcox @vandawilcox.bsky.social professional procrastinator, precarious historian, cat serf, romanista. Writes about the First World War, Italy, imperialism & Georgette Heyer, not usually all at once.🪡🥧🐈⬛️
Andrew Tucker Leavis @andrewtuckerleavis.bsky.social EIC + founder - New Nottingham Journal
Words in Radio Times, Under the Radar, Nottingham Post
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/
Eleni Brooks @elenibrooks.bsky.social she/her // accidental heretic, deliberate hoper // apprentice to Jesus // James Acaster is my special interest // auDHD 🌈
Ivar Slengesol @ivarslengesol.bsky.social Offshore wind, renewable energy, clean tech, running, music
Trisha Slay - Author @slaythewriter.bsky.social Reader. Writer. OG Star Wars Geek Girl. I love mysteries, ghost stories, cooking shows, drag queens & 70's/80s pop culture. #SHUWPF
Narrative, Culture and Community Research Centre @nccratbournemouth.bsky.social We're an interdisciplinary research centre focused on narrative and culture based at Bournemouth University. Our interests include comics, crime fiction, autofiction, spatiality, medical humanities, and memory studies. https://www.litsampersand.org/nccr
Bury St Edmunds Literature Festival @burylitfest.bsky.social Celebrating books and writing in the heart of East Anglia
Returns 8-11th October 2026
Louise @devotedtoirene.bsky.social Irene Sutcliffe fan | John ♥️ | Burnley FC 💜🩵 #UTC
Rachel @rachel-bean.bsky.social Freelance writer, avid reader. Married to someone amazing. 💜
Dr. Thinking is fun @evenannaliese.bsky.social Assistant Prof. of English & Dir. of Academic Writing. Close Reader. Thinking is Magic. 🪄
Aspen Ellis @boriellis.bsky.social PhD Candidate & NOAA Dr. Nancy Foster Scholar in the Conservation Action Lab at the University of California, Santa Cruz, studying wind energy impacts on #seabirds 🌊 | she/her 🏳️🌈
https://boriellis.github.io
Queer Judgments Project @queerjudgments.bsky.social We are a collective of scholars, lawyers, activists, and creatives who are interested in re-imagining and re-creating judgments from queer and other critical perspectives.
https://www.queerjudgments.org/
Dr Ciara Gorman @ciarabgorman.bsky.social Assistant Prof in French Studies at Maynooth University. Research on French crime fiction, female criminality, feminism. Comms Officer for Women in French UK-IRE. she/her ✨
NOTCHES Blog @notchesblog.bsky.social NOTCHES is a collaborative and international history of sexuality blog that aims to get people inside and outside the academy thinking about histories of sex and sexualities in the past and in the present across regions, periods and themes.
Mark Casey @yjcasey.bsky.social 
James Mortimer @jamesmwriter.bsky.social PhD student on Agatha Christie and queer theory. Escape room enthusiast. Writer of podcast Stonefall. Writer on The Black Archive for Obverse Books. Doctor Who and Twin Peaks fan. RPG writer and sometime poet.
Agatha Christie Netherlands @ac-netherlands.bsky.social Dutch fan, posts about Agatha Christie, her life and work, Golden Age and other (European/Dutch) detective fiction, book collecting and Agatha Christie in the Netherlands.
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.
Explore our latest titles below! ⬇️
bloomsbury.com/literarystudies
Ben Doyle @bendoyle.bsky.social Senior Publisher for Literary Studies, STS, Digital Cultures and Medical/Health Humanities at Bloomsbury Academic. All long-winded, rambling views are my own.
Kate Sawyer @katesawyer.bsky.social Author: Getting Away (coming 3.7.25!), This Family & The Stranding. Podcaster: Novel Experience. Programme Curator: Bury St Edmunds Literature Festival.
Keith Ruiter @keithruiter.bsky.social Medievalist | likes law, normativity, transgression, & other Viking Age oddities (also has a life outside work) | Senior Lecturer at University of Suffolk | Hon. Assistant Prof at Centre for the Study of the Viking Age | PhD | he/they
Richy Quigley @richyquigley.bsky.social Lover of dogs, Broadway, Agatha Christie, Angela Lansbury, Stephen Sondheim, drawing, art, cooking, meditation, British TV. Vegan. 🏳️🌈
Same profile/handle: Twitter & IG. (I post more on IG.)
Virginia Betts @virginiabwrites.bsky.social I’m Virginia Betts, a multi-genre indie author and actor from the UK. Author of sweary punk novel and beautiful poetry! I perform my poetry and write noir and gothic stories and a bit of urban grit. https://virginiabetts.com
Intellect Books @intellectbooks.bsky.social Intellect is a fiercely independent academic publisher for scholars and practitioners teaching and researching in the arts, media and creative industries.
RachelChurcherWriting @rachelchurcher.bsky.social Award-winning YA author. Indie editor, YA reviewer, co-founder of www.forewordfestival.uk
LGBTQ+ novel 'Angels' available now from bookshops, plus Amazon, Waterstones, B&N, Kobo, Apple, Smashwords, Allstora.
www.tallerbooks.com
freebook.tallerbooks.com
David Plowman @davidplowman.bsky.social Prospective candidate for the Green Party for St Clements Division of Suffolk County Council and Alexandra Ward of Ipswich Borough Council in May 2026 elections
Jenny Kenyon @jennykenyon.bsky.social 20th century literature & sound | SWW DTP funded PhD @bristoluni.bsky.social & @exeter.ac.uk | PG rep @modernistudies.bsky.social | Patrick Hamilton appreciation society
Curtis Evans @the-passing-tramp.bsky.social vagabond mystery fancier sometimes spied at thepassingtramp.blogspot.com and CrimeReads.com
David Rafferty @davidrafferty.bsky.social Roman historian in South Australia. Current project: “How Republics Die: Rome’s democratic breakdown in the 1st century BCE”. Husband and father. I’m the one who set cats and dogs against each other.
Alex Silvestre @sylvester-a.bsky.social Rebel with Causes
@chriwillid.bsky.social @chriwillid.bsky.social 
Flickytwit @flickytwit.bsky.social Coat of many colours, mind of many squirrels, always up to some sort of creative broadcasting/TV/event/props/stage shenanigans.
Septimus Brown @septimusbrown.com Senior editor at DarlingAxe.com. Novelist at SeptimusBrown.com. Award-winning short-fiction writer. Chaotic good. He/they. 🏳️🌈
Dr Natalie Wall (she/her) @realnataliewall.bsky.social Anti-racist scholar and impact professional in HE. Writes about Black Caribbean Canadian Women's Performance. Talks about research culture and impact. Published a book.
@RealNatalieWall
Emory 🩶 @emory-f8.bsky.social I write dark Victorian fiction and specialize in the long 19th century.
She/Her 🏳️🌈🇪🇸✡️ (I'm always kind)
#writer #historian #Lesbian #sapphic #wlw #Hispanic #feminist #goth #vampires #jpop #bibliophile
NO DMs | Terfs & Narcissists DNI
Thomas Willett @thomaswillett.bsky.social ✨ LGBTQ+ advocacy 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ | Trans rights are human rights | Occasional gym thirst traps | All views are my own
Feminist Killjoy @saranahmed.bsky.social Writer and independent feminist scholar
Queer person of colour
#FreePalestine
Dr. Michelle Lynn Kahn @michellelkahn.bsky.social Historian of far-right extremism, writing a book about German & American neo-Nazis | Also: migration, racism, & sexuality in Europe/global | Author of Foreign in Two Homelands (2024) | University of Richmond | Ask me about fascism & my 3 cats
Sam Rutherford (he/him) @echomikeromeo.bsky.social Lecturer in LGBTQ+ History/History of Sexuality, University of Glasgow.
I wrote this book: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/teaching-gender-9780198937494
Susan R Burgess @srburgess.bsky.social Distinguished Prof. Emerita, Ohio University, law/courts, LGBTQ politics, social movements, radicals, pop culture. I edit a book series in LGBTQ politics at NYU Press - contact me re your project. Also a fan of music, animals, nature. Chicago. Dublin.
Harvey Humphrey @harveyhumphrey.bsky.social Academic. Poet. Creative sociologist. Queer non-binary trans man. Spoonie. Gentletran & a scholar. Also part of the Queer Disability Studies Network snails. 🐌🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈
Prof Sandy O’Sullivan (Wiradjuri, trans they/them) @sandyosullivan.bsky.social Aboriginal trans professor doing anti-colonial work across policy, universities, museums, art, gender, culture, supporting older queer lives @IndigFutures.
them/sib/kin
Dr Raawiyah Rifath @raawiyah.bsky.social Lecturer at Exeter Law School. Transdisciplinarity, asylum & refugee law, vulnerability + int'l human rights. She/her.
Laura Graham @lauragraham86.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Law at Northumbria University. Research sex work, human rights, regulation of sex, bodily autonomy, and feminisms. Trustee of National Ugly Mugs. Editor in Chief of International Journal of Gender, Sexuality and Law
Dr Kevin Guyan @kevinguyan.bsky.social Author of RAINBOW TRAP and QUEER DATA 🌈 Researching LGBTQ data at the University of Edinburgh 📊 he/him/his ➡️ linktr.ee/kevinguyan
Senthorun S. Raj @senthorun.bsky.social Professor | Law, Humanities, Human Rights ✨
Professional Gay🦩
Books:
📕 The Emotions of LGBT Rights and Reforms
📕 Queer Judgments
📕 The Queer Outside in Law
📕 Feeling Queer Jurisprudence
Links: https://linktr.ee/senthorun
(He/Him)
Valerie Estelle Frankel📚👩🏫🌌🎲🎮🏰📜🧷🧛🏻♂️🦇🎭✡️✍️🧙🏻🎃 @valeriefrankel.bsky.social 👨🎓Professor, 📚author of 100 books on drwho💫starwars✨outlander #sfwa🚀 #scbwi #kidlit Cali https://www.amazon.com/stores/author/B004KMCLQK pitch me on #academic #Jewish #sff https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/series/jewish-science-fiction-and-fantasy/
Joan Hickson Fans @joanhicksonfans.bsky.social A fan account dedicated to the magnificent and irreplaceable Joan Hickson OBE (5th August 1906 - 17th October 1998)
Collecting Christie @collectchristie.bsky.social A resource for fans of Agatha Christie with a focus on the world of collecting first editions, art & memorabilia. Content written by David Morris.
Michael Kaufman @kaufmanwrites.bsky.social Writer--mysteries, YA and non-fiction. Worked in 50 countries engaging men to support women's rights & positively transform men's lives. Latest: "The Male Ally Handbook" & "Moon Storm Rising" (K Quinn) & "The Last Resort" both with climate change themes
Dr Andrew McInnes @drbeard79.bsky.social Hopeless Romanticist, childless cat dad, and coffee addict (he/him)
Solving real word problems
Rook Mogavero @corvidcastle.bsky.social they/them | an actor, in theory
Wolsey Orchestra @wolseyorch72.bsky.social In the forefront of orchestral music in Suffolk, UK since 1972.
Promoting musical excellence with 3 concerts a year.
www.wolseyorchestra.org
#wolseyorchestra #orchestra #symphonyorchestra #classicalmusic
Registered Charity 282686
Ipswich Symphony Orchestra @ipswichsymphony.bsky.social A century+ of quality music in Ipswich (1902) and an enviable reputation for adventurous programmes. Three concerts a year.
www.ipswichsymphonyorchestra.org
#ipswichsymphonyorchestra #symphonyorchestra
#orchestra #classicalmusic
Registered Charity 276724
Trianon Music Group @trianonmusicgroup.bsky.social Trianon Music Group orchestra and choir based in Ipswich. Three major concerts a year + community concerts across Suffolk. Orchestra est 1959, and choir in 1963.
www.tmg.org.uk
#trianonmusicgroup #orchestra #choir #classicalmusic
Registered Charity 276715
Mary Dickinson @marydickinson.bsky.social Life with no music would B♭- singer and musician
🎻 viola 🎼 concertina 🎶 folk music 𝄡 orchestra 🎵 classical music
🐘 loves elephants 🐑 loves crochet 📚 loves books ☀️sunny Suffolk UK
#supportlocalmusicians #supportlocalarts
Everyman Folk Club @everymanfolkclub.bsky.social A traditional folk club with a booked guest, floor singers, and always a warm welcome on the last Friday of the month, in Suffolk UK.
#everymanfolkclub #everymanfolk
#folkclub #folkmusic #suffolk
www.everymanfolkclub.co.uk
Elizabeth Dearnley @elizadearnley.bsky.social Folklorist, writer, Lecturer in Creative Writing at Edinburgh Napier. FEARSOME FAIRIES, HAUNTED YORKSHIRE etc. (British Library), THE FAIRY SPOTTER’S GUIDE (Welbeck). Fairy tales / horror / weird and eerie 🦇 Rep’d https://www.philippasitters.co.uk. She/her
Neil McGlone @neilmcgfilm.bsky.social Researcher for @Criterion.bsky.social Consultant #KVIFF #IlCinemaRitrovato, Cinema Manager #TheRiverside CEO #FilmFeast Director #SuffolkShorts
Dr Samuel Saunders @samfordsaunders.bsky.social Educational Developer at the University of Liverpool (@livunicie.bsky.social): assessment and feedback, academic integrity, curriculum design, and (sceptical thoughts on) Generative AI. PhD: English, LJMU (2018) C19 crime fiction. SFHEA. He/him.
Stefano Serafini @stefanoserafini.bsky.social Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellow Georgetown University and the University of Padua — Mental Health and Violence in Interwar Europe
https://traumatizedsubjects.eu
Claire Reynolds @clairereynolds.bsky.social DFA Researcher in Creative Writing
Books, writing, fooood
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/aquafaba-get-tae-launch-tickets-1989845560637
Alice @coffee-alice.bsky.social I write, I read, and I cook #writer #bookreviews #amwriting
Photo Credit: AdS True Crime #bookreviews can be found here defrostingcoldcases.com
Andrew Newman @andrew.graysky.social Work in the energy transition space. Tottenham, kids, dogs and horses.
Jax @liveotherwise.bsky.social 📝Writer.
🖌️Artist.
📷Photographer.
Oliver McGowan co-trainer
(they/them)
will talk: home ed, autism/adhd, books, gaming, tech, sustainability, craft, blogging, indie music.
Blog somewhere at https://liveotherwise.co.uk
Simon @simonjward93.bsky.social Press Officer at St Elizabeth Hospice, in Suffolk.
Posts/views are my own.
Mystery Steven @mysterysteven.bsky.social Polyglot catdad and 🇫🇷🇩🇪 legal translator who loves crime novels, Murder She Wrote, The Golden Girls, pub trivia & more. Also follow my posts using the tags:
#AgathaChristie #TitlesinTranslation #Poirot #Marple
Jonathan Maberry @jonathanmaberry.bsky.social NY Times bestseller, 5-time Bram Stoker Award-winner, editor & comic book writer for IDW, Dark Horse,Marvel. Creator of V-Wars (Netflix). Editor of Weird Tales.
The Puzzle Doctor @puzzledoctor.bsky.social Avid mystery fiction book blogger at classicmystery.blog - rediscoverer of Brian Flynn
Graham @onalifeglug.bsky.social Writer: Shock Doctrine of the Left (Polity) and Red Enlightenment (don't buy, boycotting publisher's owner re:Palestine) https://www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?book_slug=the-shock-doctrine-of-the-left--9781509528547
Mystery Writers of America @mysterywriters.bsky.social MWA is the premier organization for writers and fans of the mystery/crime genre and we present the Edgar Awards every spring.
https://bit.ly/m/Mystery-Writers-of-America