Colin Duncan Taylor @colinduncantaylor.com Based in the south of France for 25 years, I am an author who specialises in history, landscapes and gastronomy on both sides of the Pyrenees.
Pat Riddell @patriddell.bsky.social Editorial | Content | Consultancy
Editor-at-Large, National Geographic Traveller (UK)
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Cal Flyn @calflyn.bsky.social Author of the Sunday Times bestseller ISLANDS OF ABANDONMENT: LIFE IN THE POST-HUMAN LANDSCAPE—a book about the ecology and psychology of abandoned places. Currently at work on THE SAVAGE LANDSCAPE, expected early 2026
Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social “Hilarious.” - Stephen Fry. “Made me laugh out loud.” - David Sedaris. “Very funny.” - Kate Atkinson. "Psychedelic." - The Guardian. “Not humerus at all.” - Amazon reviewer. https://www.tom-cox.com/
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American Historical Association @historians.org The American Historical Association is the largest professional organization serving historians in all fields and all professions.
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author of the New York Times/IndieBound bestseller Dreyer's English and Stet! (the game!) • Random House copy chief/managing editor (ret.) • he/him/his
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Tom Fay @tom-fay.bsky.social • British outdoors and travel writer based in rural Kyoto/Otaru, #Japan
• Mostly into mountains, minka (traditional Japanese houses) and photography
• Guidebooks for Lonely Planet, Fodor’s Travel, Bradt, Cicerone ✍🏻
www.thomasfay.com
Roland Allen has a protagonist for Chapter XVII @zibaldoni.bsky.social 山人. Publisher by day, author by night. The Notebook: a History of Thinking on Paper is out there, and I'm currently writing a book about books. Here for: writers, books, historians, bicycles, notebooks, human intelligence.
A.N. Hill @anhill.bsky.social Ass. Dean & Prof. Humanities, @ValenciaCollege/ Art History & Humanities from Ancient to Early Modern / Community College advocate/ #RPG and #OER in classrooms/ Mother of 4 dragons / Cats often, dogs always.
Jonathan Pitches @profpitches.bsky.social Theatre Professor and eco critic. Author of Performing Mountains. Head of School of Performance and Cultural Industries at University of Leeds. European. Trying my hand at some poetry. Views my own.
Peter H Hansen @peterhhansen.bsky.social Historian, Other Everests: One Mountain, Many Worlds, co-editor; The Summits of Modern Man, prof at WPI, opinions own
The Alpine Club @alpineclub.bsky.social The world’s first mountaineering club, founded in the UK in 1857. At the leading edge of worldwide mountaineering & exploration.
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Kendal Mountain Festival @kendalmountainfest.bsky.social The world's largest cultural gathering for the Outdoor sector.
FILMS • SPEAKERS • BOOKS • ART• PHOTOGRAPHY• WORKSHOPS • BASECAMP BRAND VILLAGE • SPORTS ACTIVITIES
Festival dates: 20 – 23 Nov 2025
Watch Festival films online via – Kendal Mountain Player
AlpineInstitute @alpineinstitute.bsky.social The American Alpine Institute is a world-wide mountain school and guide service. It's mission is "to provide world class mountain education, exceptional guided experiences and to inspire natural preservation."
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Katie Ives @katie-r-ives.bsky.social Mountain writer and editor, follower of the art of galumphing, climber against fascism. Author of Imaginary Peaks: The Riesenstein Hoax and Other Mountain Dreams. (she/they)
Centre for Mountain Studies @cmountainstudies.bsky.social The Centre for Mountain Studies, University of the Highlands and Islands, Perth College ⛰️
Joanna Croston @2steep.bsky.social Director - Banff Mountain Film & Book Festival
👉 author
👉 skier, climber, cyclist, canoeist
👉 all things mountain
📖 Mountaineering Women available now from a bookstore near you!
Mountain Stories, Mountain Futures @futuremountain.bsky.social Podcast https://mountainstoriesmountainfutures.buzzsprout.com/
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The Ilse Schwepcke Prize @theisprize.bsky.social The world’s most valuable travel writing prize for women.
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Caroline Eisenmann @carolineeisenmann.bsky.social senior literary agent & VP at the Frances Goldin Literary Agency, ce@goldinlit.com
The New Yorker @newyorker.com Unparalleled reporting and commentary on politics and culture, plus humor and cartoons, fiction and poetry. Get our Daily newsletter: http://nyer.cm/gtI6pVM
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sprinkled liberally with amorous intrigues
Mountains of Greece @mountainsofgreece.bsky.social Jason König / Professor of Classics, University of St Andrews / https://mountainsofgreece.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/ / Literary and archaeological heritage of the mountains of Greece / 21st-century challenges for mountain landscapes and communities
Carl Thompson @carlethompson.bsky.social Reader in Romanticism at University of Surrey. Research interests in travel writing, Romanticism, women's writing, history of science, shipwrecks and environmental humanities. Fellow of Surrey's Institute for Sustainability.
nilay patel @reckless.bsky.social Editor-in-chief of The Verge, host of Decoder, cohost of The Vergecast. I am in love with spectacle.
Himal Southasian @himalsouthasian.bsky.social Southasia’s magazine of politics and culture. Get our newsletters in your inbox: bit.ly/HimalNewsletters
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... 
Sarah Pickman @sarahmpicks.bsky.social Historian of exploration, extreme environments, material culture + outdoor gear, fashion. Hist. sci & med PhD, editor ar Endeavour, freelance writer. I unpack packing. She/her. www.sarahmpickman.com
Jessica @jessicaschwittay.bsky.social Mountain enthusiast, runner, PhD Student researching commercialisation & risk in high altitude mountaineering🏔️
Primarily interested in conservation & tourism in protected areas and mountain regions
Find me elsewhere: https://linktr.ee/jessicaschwittay
Mountains Magazine @mountains-magazine.com Mountains-Magazine.com celebrates everything to do with the planet's peaks. We don't focus on gear, or the more extreme activities such as climbing, we do aim to be inclusive and to inspire new ways in which to visit mountains on every continent.
Olly Beckett @aplantogo.bsky.social Travel writer (bylines inc. Fodor's, Travel + Leisure, Time Out, National Geographic, Cruise and Travel), member of British Guild of Travel Writers. Editor of Mountains Magazine. Specialising in:
Mountain tourism | Responsible travel | Cruise | Hiking
Andrew Szalay @andrewszalay.bsky.social Baseball fan and out-of-shape climber running a home-building nonprofit.
https://goatsintheoutfield.wordpress.com/ (Also:
https://suburbanmountaineer.com/)
Kyle Chayka @chaykak.bsky.social Staff Writer at The New Yorker, writing a weekly column on tech & culture. Author of Filterworld (2024) & The Longing for Less (2020). Newsletter fan. Email: kyle_chayka@newyorker.com. Ava is a sloth cake.
John Cassidy @johncassidysays.bsky.social Economics writer at The New Yorker. Author of “Capitalism and Its Critics: A History from the Industrial Revolution to AI" and other beach reads.
Skylight Social @skylight.social ✨Join Skylight, report bugs, suggest features:
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Michael Chovan-Dalton @realphotoshow.bsky.social Photographer, Educator, and Host of Real Photo Show and Producer of PhotoWork with Sasha Wolf Podcasts.
https://realphotoshow.com
Philip Marsden @philipmarsden.bsky.social Author. Microfarmer. ‘Under a Metal Sky’ (Granta UK Feb ‘25, US Nov ‘25) also ‘The Summer Isles’, ‘Rising Ground’ etc. Lives in Cornwall.
Casey Newton @caseynewton.bsky.social Email salesman at Platformer.news and co-host at Hard Fork.
Kaushik Gopal @kau.sh 🌐 https://kau.sh
👨💻 Principal Engineer @instacart + Caper 🛒
🎧 Fragmented podcast
🤖 Google Developer Expert
Off Assignment @offassignment.bsky.social A non-profit literary magazine with a penchant for journeys and a fascination with strangers.
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Monisha Rajesh @monisharajesh.bsky.social Sunday Times bestselling author of Moonlight Express: Around the World By Night Train, Around the World in 80 Trains and Around India in 80 Trains
Aube Rey Lescure @aubereylescure.bsky.social French-Chinese-American novelist and essayist. Editor-in-Chief at Off Assignment. Best American Essays 2022. Author of RIVER EAST, RIVER WEST, William Morrow (US)/ Duckworth (UK), shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction.
Visit aubereylescure.com
Alpine Club Library @alpineclublib.bsky.social The Alpine Club Library - devoted to mountains, mountaineering and the history of both. Part of @alpineclub.bsky.social
Open to visitors & club members on Tuesdays, Wednesdays & Thursdays.
Kendal Mountain Book Festival @kendalmtnbookfest.bsky.social Sharing the adventure through words, wanderings and wonder.
Patron @robgmacfarlane.bsky.social
@kendalmountainfest.bsky.social 20 - 23 November 2025
linktr.ee/kendalmountainbookfestival
Association of Nepal & Himalayan Studies (ANHS) @anhs-himalaya.bsky.social An academic organization devoted to the study of Nepal and wider Himalaya–Tibet, Sikkim, Ladakh, Bhutan. Publisher of Himalaya, an open-access, peer-reviewed journal. Provider of grants & prizes for students and scholars. https://anhs-himalaya.org
Paul Morgan @paulmorgan.bsky.social 
Sebastian Modak @sebmodak.bsky.social likes words, loves wandering
travel editor, WSJ
former 52 places traveler, NYT
Peter Fiennes @pfiennes.bsky.social New book, out in May 2026! 'En Route: A Journey Round France in the Company of Great Writers'.
Author of 'Oak and Ash and Thorn', 'Footnotes' and 'A Thing of Beauty'.
#books #nature #climate
oneworld-publications.com/contributor/peter-fiennes
George Higgins @handle.invalid Modern and environmental history | PhD in C20th mountaineering in Eryri @ Bangor Uni | Wales regional ambassador for IHR HistoryLab+
Perceptive Travel @perceptivetravel.bsky.social Publishing the best travel stories in an online magazine with tales from wandering book authors, plus a blog looking into the offbeat, the usual, and the seldom covered. Rocking since 2006. https://www.perceptivetravel.com 
Alastair Humphreys @alastairhumphreys.bsky.social Living adventurously, writing books.
www.alastairhumphreys.com
kepano @stephango.com making @obsidian.md
Lavinia Spalding @laviniaspalding.bsky.social Series editor of The Best Women's Travel Writing, author of Writing Away, co-author of Hell's Backbone cookbooks & Frommer’s New Orleans. Words in NYT, Tin House, Longreads, TEDx, AFAR, etc. Co-host of There She Goes podcast, co-founder of Studio Unfurl.
Jeff Biggers, writer @jeffbiggers.bsky.social Books, plays, stories.
Art of "re-storification" on the Mississippi River-Sardinia-Bologna.
Climate Narrative Project / www.jeffrbiggers.com 
Steph Dyson @stephdyson.bsky.social 🙌Travel writer & blogger
🌎Latin America & sustainable adventure travel
✒️Nat Geo, Lonely Planet, The Telegraph
🗞️Co-founder Talking Travel Writing
Andy Adams @flakphoto.news Culture guy in Madison, Wisconsin. I run media at Outrider.org. In my free time, I publish https://www.flakphoto.news/. Do you like pictures? Read my newsletter!
📬 https://www.flakphoto.news
📸 https://linktr.ee/flakphoto
Noah @bedmounds.com https://links.noahkalina.com/
Amanda Kendle @amandakendle.bsky.social Host of The Thoughtful Travel Podcast; traveller, reader, writer, speaker, lecturer, teacher of sorts, anything with words, cats or travel basically.
Lottie Gross @lottiegross.bsky.social 🌍 Travel writer
🐾 Author of dog-friendly travel books
✉️ Co-founder Talking Travel Writing on Substack
🐶 Servant to a Manchester Terrier
Natalie Berry @natalie-berry.com Edinburgh-based journalist, translator, climber. IWMF Ukraine Fellow. Words: NYTimes, The Guardian, WIRED UK, FT HTSI, Nat Geo, The Fence etc. https://www.natalie-berry.com/
Noé Álvarez @noealvarez.bsky.social Author. Accordion Eulogies: A Memoir of Music, Migration, and Mexico (@catapult 2024) and Spirit Run(Catapult).
Madeleine O'Dea @madeleineodea.bsky.social Writer at large. Author of The Phoenix Years, Allen & Unwin, 2016; Pegasus Books, 2017. Contributor to The Beijing Bureau, Hardie Grant, 2021. Deep in a new book ✍️ AKA: 欧美琳 madeleineodea.com
Lance Richardson @lancerichardson.bsky.social Pulitzer finalist for TRUE NATURE: The Pilgrimage of Peter Matthiessen. Writer-in-residence at the University of Minnesota. Teach in the Bennington MFA. www.lancenrichardson.com
Dr. Erica Johnson @drericajohnson.bsky.social Associate Prof. of History at Francis Marion University, Editor for @AgeofRevs, Codirector of AAAS, USS faculty coordinator, LACS-SHA treasurer, she/her
Lucy Popescu @lucyjpop.bsky.social Writer, editor, critic. Chair of the Authors Club & Best First Novel Award. Former Director, WiPC, English PEN. Books incl #ACountrytoCallHome #ACountryofRefuge #TheGoodTourist & #AnotherSky. https://www.lucypopescu.com/
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
Tim Chamberlain 🧭 @waymarks.bsky.social Historian, interested in Exploration & Empire. PhD from Birkbeck College, University of London. FRGS. https://tim-chamberlain.owlstown.net/
Ed Douglas @calmandfearless.bsky.social Writer. Loves the spikier bits of the planet. Bath addict. Contributor to Guardian Country Diary. Represented by David Godwin Associates.
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
Benedict Allen @benedictallen.bsky.social Motivational Speaker, "Extreme Explorer", Environmental Scientist, broadcaster, author. Brought non film-crew expeditions to the telly - inadvertently pioneering the Video Selfie.
Instagram: @benedictallenexplorer
X: @benedictallen
www.benedictallen.com
Jonathan Chatwin @jmchatwin.bsky.social Non-fiction writer.
Writes about travel, China, sometimes both simultaneously.
‘The Southern Tour: Deng Xiaoping and the Fight for China’s Future’ (2024).
‘Long Peace Street: A walk in modern China’ (2019)
‘Anywhere Out of the World’ (2012)
Daniel Fahey @danielfahey.bsky.social Journalist and editor (https://danielfahey.contently.com).
Commission: Lonely Planet. Write: Positive News, The Independent, Nat Geo, The Telegraph, Time Out, and more. Finalist: The Times AA Gill Awards.
Currently undergoing cancer treatment 🙄
Mark Horrell @markhorrell.bsky.social Indie author & mountaineering writer | Bit of a mountain history geek | Baldest digital comms professional to climb Everest (probably) | Occasionally frivolous
C.J. Schüler @schulercj.bsky.social Writer, editor, nature reserve volunteer, Herne Hillbilly. Author, The Wood That Built London, Along the Amber Route (shortlisted @StanfordsTravel Award 2021). Published @SandstonePress. Represented @CullandCoAgency
Jini Reddy @jinireddy.bsky.social Writer of books & features. WANDERLAND (Bloomsbury) shortlisted for Stanford Dolman Travel Book of the Year& Wainwright Prize.
Royal Literary Fund Advisory Fellow/ @DHHLiterary
www.jinireddy.co.uk
@tswick.bsky.social @tswick.bsky.social Travel writer and essayist, amateur photographer and cartoonist. Native of New Jersey, friend of Poland, defender of Florida, fan of the unsung.
kerraway.bsky.social @kerraway.bsky.social Reader, writer, runner. No longer flying for work. Son of Portstewart, Co Derry, citizen of the world. Editor of deskboundtraveller.com.
Tim Youngs @timyoungs.bsky.social Author / editor of books on travel writing. Poet. Interests in visual art, especially that of Gurminder Sikand.
Stuart McDonald @travelfish.bsky.social Asia-based, Australian-made. Founder of Travelfish, author of Couchfish, serial moaner, and late to most parties. Rambles on travel, tourism garbage fires, hot bowls and cold drinks.
Jamie Lafferty @megaheid.bsky.social Writer, photographer, polar guide, often in faraway places.
Prof Sunny Singh @profsunnysingh.bsky.social Writer, reader, thinker. Founder & director of the Jhalak Prize
Pat Yale @patyale.bsky.social İstanbul via London, Cambridge, Bristol & Göreme. Author: Following Miss Bell: Travels Around Turkey in the Footsteps of Gertrude Bell & assorted guidebooks. Cat lover. Painted trafo fan. 
Julian Hoffman @julianhoffman.bsky.social Writing, nature, people, climate, place.
New book: LIFELINES - Waterstones Book of the Month
Author of IRREPLACEABLE & THE SMALL HEART OF THINGS
Upcoming: THE LAST WILD RIVER
Prespa, Greece. Rep'd by @jmlockhart.bsky.social
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Caroline Eden @edentravels.bsky.social Writer about places. Red Sands: Reportage & Recipes Through Central Asia, ‘book of the year’ for the Sunday Times, FT and New Yorker. New memoir 'Cold Kitchen' (Bloomsbury) out now www.carolineeden.com
Bella 📸 Passport & Pixels @passportandpixels.bsky.social 📸 Travel & wildlife photographer
💻 Award-winning writer & blogger (BBC Travel, Nat Geo Travel)
🎥 Documentary director (PBS, BBC, Channel 4)
🇬🇧 London
Shafik Meghji @shafikmeghji.bsky.social Journalist, travel writer, author
📖 Small Earthquakes (BGTW Travel Narrative Book of the Year 2025), Crossed Off the Map
✍🏽 BBC Travel, National Geographic Traveller, Wanderlust, Geographical
🌎 Latin America / Ex-porteño
https://linktr.ee/ShafikMeghji
Richard Smyth @rsmythfreelance.bsky.social Writer.
https://richarddsmyth.com/
Nick Hunt @nickhuntscrutiny.bsky.social Author: Red Smoking Mirror, Outlandish, Where the Wild Winds Are, Walking the Woods and the Water, Loss Soup, The Parakeeting of London. Co-director: Dark Mountain Project.
Jonathan Westaway @jonwestaway.bsky.social Cultural and environmental historian/geographer. Mountain and polar regions. Cryohistories. Indigenous knowledge. Island Studies.
PL AHRC 'Other Everests' network.
uclan.academia.edu/JonathanWestaway 
Tim Hannigan @timhannigan.bsky.social Writer from Cornwall: #TheGraniteKingdom, #TheTravelWritingTribe, #ThePathlessLand (forthcoming), Indonesian history; academic stuff on travel writing. Teaches Writing & Literature at ATU Sligo.
Paul Clammer @paulclammer.bsky.social Writer | BLACK CROWN: Biography of Henry Christophe, King of Haiti | Antarctic Editor | Recovering Lonely Planet guidebook author | Bristol
https://paulclammer.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/
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
Bryan Banks @bryanbanksphd.bsky.social Historian of France/Atlantic World, Assoc. Prof, Book on Huguenot refugees. Working on a book about the Great Pigeon Massacre of 1789. Co-founder www.AgeofRevolutions.com. Story-teller.
Paul Cheney @halfmanhalfbook.bsky.social Reader | Non-Fiction Reviewer | Blogger | Book Collector | Dad | Development Engineer | Geek | Beer Lover | All views mine
http://halfmanhalfbook.co.uk/