Kate Carpenter @katecarp.bsky.social Historian/writer. Creator, @draftingthepast.bsky.social podcast. History of science PhD candidate at Princeton, based in KCMO. Working on a history of storm chasing.
https://draftingthepast.com/
http://kathrynbcarpenter.com/
Annalisa Nicholson @apuddleofmuddle.bsky.social Early modernist and Research Fellow in French at KCL
Writes on salons, exiles, libertinism, queer women, Huguenots ~ she/her
https://www.kcl.ac.uk/people/annalisa-nicholson
Andy Scollick @andyscollick.bsky.social Strategic defence planning and foresight | security and defence policy | interactions between climate change, energy, security, defence | former adviser to Ukraine's military | marine environmental policy | PhD in sustainability science | Ireland/Europe
Dr Sarah Flew @c19thphilanthropy.bsky.social C19th historian fascinated by philanthropy & charity. Latest book examines Lord Overstone's philanthropy in period 1843-83. Oh and I’m a fundraiser as well! https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/charitable-giving-in-victorian-britain-9781350424593/
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 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
C. Beaujolais: Nom de plume @crbeaujolais.bsky.social Senior Uni professor by day. Dog lover. Satirist by night.
My covert account!
Wrote satirical novella: Russia tries to get asset into the Whitehouse.
“Operation Poodle: How to Train a President”
Non-amazon options
https://beaujolais.bravehost.com
Karl Steel @karlsteel.bsky.social Brooklyn College / Grad Center Medievalist. Posthumanism. How to Make a Human (Ohio State UP 2011); How Not to Make a Human (Minnesota UP 2019). Currently working on The Irrational Animal.
website is medievalkarl.com
Tom Reagan’s Hat @rufustsuperfly.bsky.social Always looking for the heat around the corner
Black Herald Press @blackheraldpress.bsky.social Éditeur indépendant / independent press
poésie, essais, textes courts / Poetry books, essays, short texts (in English or mostly bilingual) since 2010 / éditrice-publisher Blandine Longre @blandinelongre.bsky.social
https://www.blackheraldpress.com
SlenderSherbet @slendersherbet.bsky.social To help care for sick and injured animals, please donate to Lovina Animal Welfare at https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/lovinaAW Thank you ❤️
Karolinum Press @karolinumpress.cuni.cz The largest publisher of scientific and educational books in the Czech Republic 🧬👩🏼🎓📚
Mark Berry @boulezian.eurosky.social Musicology and history (intellectual, political, etc.). Writing a book on the complete Mozart operas in eighteenth-century historical context. Views, for better or worse, my own. He/him/his https://boulezian.blogspot.com/
Splice @thisissplice.bsky.social www.ThisIsSplice.co.uk
Zoë Grünewald @zoegrunewald.bsky.social Political journalist & broadcaster |
Westminster Editor at the Lead UK |
Presenter on Fubar Radio |
Chatting on Oh God What Now |
Find my work and commission me here: https://www.zoegrunewald.com/
Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social Commentary • Satirical Emeritus
Matt Carr @mattcarr.substack.com Writer, author, journalist, cat lover, walker, traveller. X Exile. No tolerance for fascists,racists, liars, or making your country great again…wherever it is. Weekly newsletter at: mattcarr.substack.com
Lauren Leek @laurenleek.eu Social data scientist with too many questions | Assistant Professor at Leiden University | PhD from @EUI
https://laurenleek.eu/
https://laurenleek.substack.com
Prof Christina Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social Prof Operational Research , @UCL_CORU, passionate about health care, women in STEMs, defending liberal democracy (!). Member of @independentsage, posts personal. https://www.trumpactiontracker.info/
Peter Kravitz @peterkravitz.bsky.social Couples, individual & trauma psychotherapist in Edinburgh. Climate grief, poetry relief.
Editor: The Picador Book of Contemporary Scottish Fiction. Shakespeare for everything & nothing.
(And my Great Aunt Fanny ran The Vegetarian Hotel in the Catskills.)
Dr Ian McCormick @wokestudies.bsky.social English Language & Literature. Quondam Prof. PhD: Monstrosity. Queer history. Gothic. 𝔄𝔯𝔠𝔥𝔞𝔦𝔠 𝔈𝔫𝔤𝔩𝔦𝔰𝔥. Editor, Shakespeare: New Voices. https://linktr.ee/drianmccormick
Anthony @timesflow.bsky.social Rootless cosmopolitan | Reading wildly | 'Obscure enough to be left in the sweetest of solitudes.' — De Quincey
https://timesflowstemmed.com
Matthew Rice @matthew-rice.bsky.social Poet-PhD-Anti-racist. ‘Plastic’ forthcoming in January 2026 with Fitzcarraldo Editions (UK) & Soft Skull Press (US), available here: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/790542/plastic-by-matthew-rice/
Sophie Coulombeau @sophiecoulombeau.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in English Literature & Creative Writing. Burneys, book history, 18thc reading habits & naming practices. Novelist. Maker of radio. Mother & carer. Yotam Ottolenghi superfan.
Edward Luce @edwardluce.bsky.social FT's US columnist/commentator. Author of several books including NYT best selling biography of Zbigniew Brzezinski (Simon & Schuster 2025). People lacking a sense of humour might get muted.
Phil Nugent @philnugent.bsky.social A cool rebel with no friends
Deborah Reed @deborahreedwriter.bsky.social Novelist. Berlin expat. Guest lecturer at Uni Freiburg. Previous owner of Cloud & Leaf Bookstore on the Oregon coast. THE DAYS WHEN BIRDS COME BACK. PALE MORNING LIGHT WITH VIOLET SWAN. MOBILE CREATURES coming spring, 2027.
Deborahreedwriter.com
Draught @draughtjournal.bsky.social Draught is a new journal made at the School of Arts and Humanities at the Royal College of Art. Issue 1.1.1 launched 8 October
https://draughtjournal.com/
Sam Missingham @samatlounge.bsky.social Publishing commentator. Founder of Meet The Booktokers, As Seen On Booktok, and The Empowered Author. Trying to disrupt book publishing for 15+ years. Not easy. 
Matthew Francis @mjfrancis.bsky.social 
C.D. Rose @cdrose.bsky.social Writer of stories. 'We Live Here Now.' 'Walter Benjamin Stares at the Sea,' 'The Blind Accordionist,' 'Who's Who When Everyone is Someone Else,' 'The Biographical Dictionary of Literary Failure.' (@melvillehouse.bsky.social)
Paula Shields @paulashields.bsky.social Arts journalist. Event moderator. Arena, RTÉ Radio 1. Dublin, Ireland.
Football Ramble @footballramble.bsky.social The Original Football Podcast. Strong takes, funny jokes and a passion for Phil Neville. LISTEN HERE 👉 lnk.to/ramble
Lynsey Black @lynseyblack.bsky.social Doing history, gender, punishment, postcolonialism, borders at Maynooth University. PI on Research Ireland Laureate Award, CONSPACE - Contested Space: Penal Nationalism & the Northern Ireland Border.
Reaktion Books @reaktionbooks.bsky.social An independent publisher of innovative non-fiction.
www.reaktionbooks.co.uk
Zoe Gardner @zoejardiniere.bsky.social UK & EU refugees & migration. LGBTI+, feminism & generalised incoherent ranting to boot. She/Her. I do policy, research & campaigns.
zoegardner.net
Claire Wilmot @clairelwilmot.bsky.social Journalist/writer/researcher | visiting postdoc fellow, London School of Economics | before: TBIJ, UofT | epistemology, tech, corruption, legal systems, gender.
https://www.instagram.com/clairelwilmot?igsh=MWl2dmJzYjY2YWh2Ng%3D%3D&utm_source=qr
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.
Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com Independent journalist, SnapStream brand ambassador, and publisher of the Public Notice newsletter https://www.publicnotice.co/subscribe
Ailsa Cox @ailsacox.bsky.social Writer and critic, Emerita Professor of Short Fiction at Edge Hill University UK.
Short stories, Precipitation, https://www.confingopublishing.uk/
https://www.routledge.com/Writing-Short-Stories-A-Routledge-Writers-Guide/Cox/p/book/9781032582481.
Dave C @duckpondsreview.bsky.social Retired and reading quite a lot in a quiet corner of Australia.
Ruth Thomas @ruthiesthomas.bsky.social Latest novel The Snow and the Works on the Northern Line (a BBC Book at Bedtime) @royalliteraryfund.bsky.social
Agent Georgia Garrett @RCWLitAgency
https://blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/product/The-Home-Corner-by-Ruth-Thomas/9780571230624
JacquiWine @jacquiwine.bsky.social Book lover, film lover, art lover, wine lover. I write about books at JacquiWine's Journal. https://linktr.ee/jacquiwine
Roland Bates @rolandbates.bsky.social The sweet sweet taste of manchineel.
"Four oysters? Pointless"
Ian MacClayn @ianmacclayn.bsky.social https://linktr.ee/ianmacclayn
Writer. Debut novel THE HOLLOW OF EVENING out Feb 9 2027 with Dundurn Press/Rare Machines
Duncan U Fisher @duncfsh.bsky.social Glaswegian based in Newcastle/Sheffield, UK. University researcher of paid care work at @centreforcare.bsky.social Other interests include all things books, music and gigs, art, football, walking
Ned Boulting @nedboulting.bsky.social Name shouter
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
Clare Pollard @poetclare.bsky.social Novelist. Poet. Reader.
🏺OVID’S HEROINES 🍼INCARNATION 🐇FIERCE BAD RABBITS 🔮 DELPHI 🏰THE UNTAMEABLES 🧚🏾THE MODERN FAIRIES, ✍️LIVES OF THE FEMALE POETS 🌊THE OTHERNAUTS, etc
Substack: Clare’s Poetry Circle
Sasha Dugdale @sashadugdale.bsky.social Poet and translator in a very bad time for Lyrik
Lover of lurchers and other thieving dogs
The Strongbox, Carcanet, 2024
Ian Hagues @ianhagues.bsky.social Books and creativity. You matter.
Brian Davey @brianmdavey.bsky.social Writing & reviews in The Dublin Review, Stinging Fly and CIRCA Art Mag.
Beckett at Reading @beckettreading.bsky.social News and Events from The Samuel Beckett Research Centre and the Beckett International Foundation at the University of Reading, UK.
Colm Brennan @colmgbrennan.bsky.social Poet & Writer
Poetry Ireland Review • Banshee • The Waxed Lemon • Sonder • The Cormorant • Profiles • The Ogham Stone • Arts Council Literature Bursary • MA in creative writing from UL
colmgbrennan.com
betancur . n @nelbeu.bsky.social art & architectural historian / visual, material & religious culture
Simon Wren-Lewis @sjwrenlewis.bsky.social Emeritus Professor of Economics, Oxford University. 
Niamh Cullen @niamhcullen.bsky.social Lecturer @ QUB history. Twentieth century Italy, history of emotions, family, motherhood. Creative approaches to history. Essays and stories in the Dublin Review @londonmagazine, Tangerine magazine
Free Palestine 🇵🇸
https://niamhcullenwriter.com/
Jon McGregor @jonmcgregor.bsky.social I write novels and stories . (Recentlyish: Lean Fall Stand.)
There is a Substack: https://classnotesbyjonmcgregor.substack.com/
Also learning Dutch - kom maar bij mij en nederlands met me spreken, alstublieft x
And Other Stories @andotherstories.bsky.social Not-for-profit press led by readers, writers & translators. Consider subscribing to help us take publishing risks. http://andotherstories.org/subscriptions/
Lucie Elven @lucieelven.bsky.social 
Amnesty International @amnesty.org We defend human rights around the world.
No government is beyond scrutiny, no situation is beyond hope.
Let's get to work!
For media enquiries, please contact us at press@amnesty.org
Blandine Longre @blandinelongre.bsky.social traduction littéraire / literary translation // édition / publishing @blackheraldpress.bsky.social
https://blongre.wixsite.com/blandinelongre
Terry Pitts (Vertigo) @vertigoterry.bsky.social Since 2007, I have written about W.G. Sebald, literature with embedded photographs, and literature at the challenging end of the spectrum. I write at https://sebald.wordpress.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/
British Centre for Literary Translation @bcltuea.bsky.social British Centre for Literary Translation (BCLT) is Britain’s leading centre for the study and support of literary translation.
linktr.ee/bcltuea
Literary Review @litreview.bsky.social Britain's leading monthly literary magazine. For people who devour books. Read our latest: literaryreview.co.uk
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Nicholas Guyatt @nicholasguyatt.bsky.social I teach American history at Cambridge. Views/opinions strictly personal. Content 40% political, 30% historical, 30% cat photos but ratio under constant review
Amy Lilwall @amylilwall.bsky.social Writer. Novelist. Very bad at social media.
amylilwall.co.uk
Dymphna Flynn @dymphnaflynn.bsky.social Development producer Pier Productions. Ex BBC Radio 4 producer. Former Costa Prize judge. Love to read in Brighton, London and the South of France
nora 🍐 @pear-jelly.bsky.social Seasonal reader, Comyns head, spinsterlit, midcentury women writers, heritage publishing and secondhand bookshopping #spinsterseptember 🇮🇪 Dublin
Keith Ridgway @rid9way.bsky.social writer
Dooneen - out now from Fitzcarraldo Editions and New Directions
previously - A Shock / Hawthorn & Child / Animals / etc
N u z h a t B u k h a r i @nuzhatbukhari7.bsky.social Brilliant Corners (CB Editions)
Views & Reviews: https://cbeditions.com/bukhari.html
Contributing Editor at Poetry Birmingham Literary Journal
Arin Keeble @keeblearin.bsky.social he/him. teaching C21 literature at ENU. co-ed of Jesmyn Ward: New Critical Essays (EUP, 2023). Twenty-First Century Fictions of Terrorism (EUP, 2024). 
Addison Zeller @addisonzeller.bsky.social writer / bruising for @bruisermag.com
https://linktr.ee/addisonzeller
The European Review of Books @europeanreview.bsky.social A magazine about culture and ideas, from Europe, for the world, with essays, reviews, stories, profiles and other adventurous writing.
Joelle McTigue 📷 @joellemctigue.bsky.social Artist examining memory as unstable matter shaped by movement, repetition, access, power, and erasure. Madrid. joellemctigue.com
Jayne Joso 💙 @jaynejoso.bsky.social Novelist 💙 Artist 💙
Novels, short stories, plays, poems
The New York Times, Yorkshire Times, TLS, ICON
Arts Council England, DAIWA, & SASAKAWA FOUNDATION Awards
HAY FESTIVAL
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/
sander pleij @sanderpleij.bsky.social co-founding editor
www.europeanreviewofbooks.com
Rónán Hession @ronanhession.bsky.social Irish writer. Leonard and Hungry Paul, Panenka, Ghost Mountain. Richard Heart Julianne out in summer 2027
www.ronanhession.com
Music as Mumblin' Deaf Ro https://mumblindeafro.bandcamp.com/
Matthew Teller @matthewteller.com Author: FINDING ALADDIN, out Nov 2026 • DAYBREAK IN GAZA • NINE QUARTERS OF JERUSALEM • QUITE ALONE • https://linktr.ee/matthewteller • He/him
🦋 🏳️🌈 💙 @kdenver5280.bsky.social Following Smart People. Marriage for All. Abortion is Healthcare. 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈 Fierce 2SLGBTQIA+ Ally. DEI is Necessary. Vaccines, duh. FUCK the orange asshat and all of its cult. Tax the Rich. Be a decent human. Love the smell of the air after it rains.
du côté de chez rob @rchamilton.bsky.social 
Ansgar Allen @ansgarallen.bsky.social Writes. Edits @erratumpress.bsky.social
ansgarallen.com // https://ansgarallen.substack.com/
Henry Wismayer @henrywismayer.bsky.social Hopeless dilettante. Features and essays all over, inc: NYT, WaPo, FT, WSJ, Atlantic, Nat Geo, Guardian, Noema, Aeon, and Time.
https://www.henry-wismayer.com/
David Honig @dbhonig.bsky.social The Overton Window has turned me into a flaming liberal. Attorney, law professor, LGBTQ+ supporter, and velomobile rider. No DMs and no porn please.
Charles Boyle @cbeditions.bsky.social Writer and publisher (CB editions, 2007 to now: www.cbeditions.com)
Christian Hoskins @aquilanebula.bsky.social Public transport specialist, reviewer for Gramophone, occasional traveller & photographer.
Orlaith Darling @darlingorlaith.bsky.social Research Ireland postdoc @ UCD in contemporary literature, affect, and late capitalism | Previously postdoc @ JLU Giessen | PhD @ Trinity College Dublin | Tuirseach, traochta agus cáite amach | Free Palestine
Work @ https://orlaithdarling.com
Marina Benjamin @marinabenjamin.bsky.social Writer. Editor at Aeon. Midlife trilogy (Middlepause, Insomnia, A Little Give) &c. Essays in Granta, Aeon, Paris Review. New work cooking. Rep Rebecca Carter
The Guardian @theguardian.com The need for independent journalism has never been greater. Become a Guardian supporter https://support.theguardian.com
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Russell Williams @rwilliamsparis.bsky.social Associate Prof of Comparative Literature and English, The American University of Paris; French Editor, The Times Literary Supplement. Thinking about French Weird.
John Harris @johnharris1969.bsky.social Guardian. Free Substack pieces at maybeimamazed.substack.com Plus music writing in MOJO. Maybe I'm Amazed, my new memoir about autism & music, out now. Order here https://linktr.ee/maybeimamazed
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