Mark Ruffalo @markruffalo.bsky.social A husband, father, actor, director, & a climate justice advocate with an eye out for a better, brighter, cleaner, & more hopeful future for all of us.
Lucy Dodsworth @lucydodsworth.bsky.social 📍Cheltenham-based travel writer
🌍 Car-free and train travel (and lots of cats)
🖋️ Blogs at https://www.ontheluce.com and http://www.explorethecotswolds.com
📙 Author of 'Auld and New in Edinburgh' (BGTW guidebook of the year)
Kirsten Henton @kirstenjh.bsky.social Edinburger • Weather2Travel editor & travel writer • Words in The Sunday Times, BBC, JRNY, Scotland Mag etc • History, nature, watersports, lover of the great outdoors 🌍
Olivia Greenway @oliviagreenway.bsky.social Travel & lifestyle journalist; travel content for brands. Manchester-based, ex-London. Veggie plus food and art lover. Words in Daily Mail, Telegraph, Times, Time Out and others.
www.oliviagreenway.com
https://oliviatravel.substack.com
Nina Caplan @ninacaplan.bsky.social "Bacchantian maiden, parching for wine". Wine for Times Luxx, travel for The Times, Travel+Leisure, Food&Wine, Conde Nast Traveler, Club Oenologique etc. Award-winning book The Wandering Vine, ✍️book on Michelin. Lives in London & France. www.ninacaplan.com
Huw Oliver @huwoliver.bsky.social Audience editor and columnist on the travel desk at The Times and The Sunday Times
Cynthia D. Bertelsen @cynthiabertelsen.bsky.social Award-winning author/historian/librarian. 3 Best in the World Gourmand World Cookbook Awards. Culinary history, reading, cooking, travel, politics, oceans.
More at cynthiabertelsen.substack.com/, medium.com@gherkinstomato, and gherkinstomatoes.com
Simon Usborne @susborne.bsky.social Journalist, London. Features for The Guardian, Sunday Times, Financial Times, Telegraph Magazine etc. susborne.com
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 🙄
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... 
Pat Riddell @patriddell.bsky.social Editorial | Content | Consultancy
Editor-at-Large, National Geographic Traveller (UK)
https://patriddell.co.uk/
James Stewart @itsjamesstewart.bsky.social Journalist writing for The Times/Sunday Times, FT and others. Freelance Writer of the Year 2024 & 2020, Travel Writer of the Year 2021. Saltwater for blood
https://www.james-stewart.com
Sian Meades-Williams @sianysianysiany.bsky.social Freelance Writing Jobs newsletter 💌 Food and travel features writer🍝Yeovil Literary Prize winner 🏆 The Pyjama Myth 📖 Cats 🐾 Potatoes 🍟 she/her 💕 https://freelancewritingjobs.substack.com
Peter Frankopan @peterfrankopan.bsky.social Historian. Coffee drinker
Rosie Whitehouse @rosiewhitehouse.bsky.social Journalist and author. Two Sisters: Love, Betrayal and Resistance in Wartime France is out in January 2025 https://www.hurstpublishers.com/book/two-sisters/ I also write travel guides and am the Historical Advisor to the ‘45 Aid Society w 45aid.org
Ana Sekulić @anasekulic.bsky.social Historian & writer. Editor & co-founder of Women* Write the Balkans. Aspiring corgi haver.
Jonathan Bousfield @jonbousfield.bsky.social Lives in Zagreb, wanders around a bit
Carlton Reid @carltonreid.com Associate Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. Specialist journalist: WIRED.com and more. Press Gazette Transport Journalist of the Year 2018. Finalist: Travel Photographer of the Year 2024 https://authory.com/carltonreid Signal: carltonreid.67
Ian Bancroft @ianbancroft.bsky.social Writer & former diplomat. Peacebuilding @pci_org. #Wine @autochthoinos. Wrote a novel 'Luka' (http://bit.ly/LukaNovel) & a north Kosovo book (https://bit.ly/NKosovo).
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
Jonty Este @jonty98.bsky.social International affairs editor at The Conversation UK: @uk.theconversation.com. Interests include books, music, cooking, dogs, Tottenham Hotspur FC and travel, not necessarily in that order. And cricket. Did I mention cricket?
Women* Write the Balkans @womenwritebalkans.bsky.social write(at)womenwritethebalkans.com
IG: @womenwritethebalkans
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Laura Sanders @laurathejourno.bsky.social Award-winning journalist, travel writer & broadcaster 📝
Creator of The True Travel Podcast 🎙️
Former senior journalist at Which? Travel
Words: Conde Nast Traveller, Lonely Planet, Telegraph Travel, Indy Travel, etc
Auburn Scallon @wsauburn.bsky.social Guidebook author, localization editor, and @Unbreaking.org contributor. I’m into pop culture, performing arts, politics, podcasting, critical travel writing, & conscious language. she/they
https://auburn.contently.com/
Shawn Hennessey ☀️🍷 @sevillatapas.bsky.social 👸🏻Queen of Tapas
🥂 Sherry Educator
🐷 Jamón Enthusiast
🍤🍷Food & Wine Experiences
✍🏻 Decanter Magazine Contributor
💃🏻Sevillana since 1993
☀️Sevilla Spain
🔗 linktr.ee/sevillatapas
Victoria Trott @trottaround.bsky.social Travel writer. Franco-phoney.
teddy minford @teddyminford.bsky.social travel writer + editor
Jill SG @wordsbyjill.bsky.social Love: cats, dogs, mountains, lakes, crime fiction, swimming, skiing, life in France 🗻⛷️🏊♀️📚
Loathes: tidying, boredom, cooking, televised sport 👩🍳
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Jen Ratcliffe @jenratcliffe.bsky.social ✏️Writer, birder, boater, poet
🌱 #DailyNature 🌊Water Book Club 🚢 Mess In A Boat Substack
🚂#TravelWriter 🛶#UKCanals
🏆 In The Dark LL 25
WC NatureWriting SL 24
Porthleven SL 23
📰 IntrepidTimes, WaterwaysWorld Telegraph
#NatureWriting
#NaturePoetry
Monica Cesarato @monicacesarato.bsky.social Venice-Italy expert / food & travel blogger / podcaster for Venice Talks / author of "Andar Per Bacari" a Cicchetti book ---https://editorialeprogramma.it/shop/guide/andar-per-bacari-english-version/
Laura Motta @lauramotta.bsky.social Travel writer and editor, content strategist, lifelong theater nerd, selective figure skating fan. This meeting could have been a musical.
Jon Holmes @jonholmes.bsky.social Fiddling on this place while the other place burns.
Makes #TheSkewer for the BBC, among other nonsense. weareunusual.net
Audrey Gillan @audreygillan.bsky.social Writer and broadcaster.
www.audreygillan.com
Catharine Morris @catharinemorris.bsky.social Executive Editor at The TLS (@thetls.bsky.social). Commissioning in Biography, Memoir, Travel, Book History, Language. Freelance writer
Geraldine @everywhereist.bsky.social James Beard Award-winning writer, bestselling author, and all-around weirdo behind Everywhereist.com. Author, ALL OVER THE PLACE (Hachette, 2017) and IF YOU CAN'T TAKE THE HEAT (PRH, 2024)
Summer Rylander @summeroutside.bsky.social Travel and science journalist + wildlife photographer covering positive-impact tourism and the conservation of our biodiverse planet.
David Farley @davidfarley.bsky.social Author. Eater. Traveler. Bon vivant. NYC-based food and travel writer for New York Times, National Geographic, Food & Wine and others. https://dfarley.com/
Charlie Connelly @charlieconnelly.bsky.social Stage haunter, writer, Addick in Dundee. Attention All Shipping live show coming to a theatre near you as long as you're near a theatre where it's on.
Gail Simmons @gailsimmons.bsky.social Walks & Writes | Out now: BETWEEN THE CHALK AND THE SEA | Rep. @AgentSophieL @CWAgencyUK | Teaches @BSUCreativeW | http://Travelscribe.org
Theodora Sutcliffe @theodora.bsky.social Freelance hackette, content queen and recovering nomad. Working on a novel.
Emma Gregg @emmagregg.com Travel journalist, author, editor, photographer
🌍 Africa, UK & elsewhere
🦋 wildlife • nature • culture • islands
🌱 responsible tourism • sustainability • eco-adventures
www.emmagregg.com
Pam Mandel @nerdseyeview.bsky.social Words, bikes, dogs, cooking, stories, resistance. More at nerdseyeview.com. I host a podcast about getting fired: https://cannedpodcast.com/
Joshua Mellin @joshuamellin.bsky.social Writer / Photographer | Published @cnn.com, @nytimes.com, @washingtonpost.com, etc. | Covering #travel #music #art #sports | http://instagram.com/joshuamellin joshuamellin.com
Helen Ranger @helenranger.bsky.social Writer living in SW France. Lonely Planet author, mostly Africa, also France. Morocco travel consultant. Loves food and cooking, history, podcasts, books.
www.conciergemorocco.com
Lisa Young @lisayoung.bsky.social Writer/Photographer Co-founder iEscape.Com. In Wanderlust Telegraph Guardian C&TH Times NGT Independent BLLNR Observer ADVENTURE.com Bentley Magazine
Christa Larwood @clarwood.bsky.social BBC Travel Show host, #travel journo, producer/director and writer. All views my own. Insta 📸: @ christa.larwood
Katie Silcox @katiesilcox.bsky.social - Managing Editor @citizenfemme
- Freelance travel & lifestyle writer
- Travel, hotels, restaurants, design
- Based in 🇬🇷 via 🇬🇧🇦🇪🇮🇳
- My work: https://katie-silcox.com
Abigail Blasi @abiwhere.bsky.social Travel Writer @Lonely Planet, FT, Times, Telegraph, the i, the Independent 
Christie Dietz @christiedietz.de Germany-based freelance journalist (Nat Geo Traveller Food, Food & Travel, Gastro Obscura, Pit etc) • IACP award winner • Intl Coordinator, Guild of Food Writers • http://christiedietz.de • Train travel | Regional German food | Wine village life 🇬🇧🇩🇪
TripFiction @tripfiction.bsky.social Love to travel? Love to read?
TripFiction.com matches books with 2,890 locations around the world
See a destination through the eyes of an author
Dorothée Lefering @dorolef.bsky.social Travel. Green. Fair. 🖌 📷 Ethical Social Media. The Touristin https://www.thetouristin.com
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/
Nikki Bayley @nikkibayley.bsky.social Head Cheese @ https://boardsofvancouver.ca
Writer @ Eater, BC Living, Daily Telegraph, Whistler Traveller.
Yin yoga. Roast dinners. Cork dork. Wrangler of world’s cutest dog.
Mike Gerrard @mikegerrard.bsky.social Travel/drinks writer. Rugby fan. Crime writing reader. Latest book: Behind Bars, which is not a prison diary. Half year in Arizona, half in The Fens.
David Whitley @mrdavidwhitley.bsky.social Travel writer. Nerd. General annoyance.
I never met a joke I liked that I didn't want to drill into the ground.
Writes quizzes at https://geograquiz.com/ . Shares unsolicited thoughts at https://planetwhitley.com/ .
Nicola Williams @tripalong.bsky.social Travel writer / editor in France @LonelyPlanet #Paris #Bordeaux #Provence #France #Italy #Sicily #Tuscany Author. @TelegraphTravel France Destination Expert. Foodie, runner.
Fiona Flores Watson @fionafloreswatson.bsky.social Writer, translator and guide in Seville. History nut. Mother of cats, dog and children. Involuntary teetotal.
Jo Fletcher-Cross @glitterjo.bsky.social Writer, love to travel, dying of pesky brain tumour, wants to make a joke out of… everything 
Annie Bennett @anniebennett.bsky.social Travel writer. Spain and Wales
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
Emese Maczko @emesemaczko.bsky.social Freelance Travel Writer focusing on #ecotourism and #sustainabletravel | Editor-in-chief for ecolodgesanywhere.com | Forbes Contributor | Bylines in Fortune, Euronews | MSN and Newsbreak Direct Publisher |
-> muckrack.com/emese-maczko/
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/
Jodi Ettenberg @legalnomads.com Once a lawyer, then a celiac travel writer. Now disabled, writing about curiosity & health.
Travel writing & gluten-free guides: legalnomads.com
The best things I read each month: jodiettenberg.substack.com
MCAS, meditation, & health: jodiettenberg.com
Helen Iatrou ✍🏼⛵🖤🎶🇬🇷🇦🇺 @heleniatrou.bsky.social Travel & Yachting journalist @ Travel + Leisure, Lonely Planet, AFAR, Robb Report & more | Content marketing | #Greece Is My Niche | Member SATW & YJA | Islander | 💙Sailing | 🖤 music snob
📍Athens, Greece
https://linktr.ee/heleniatrou
Andrew Sanger @andrewsanger.bsky.social Novelist and travel writer.
100s articles for UK media. 40 guidebooks (#France, #Israel...).
6 #novels - The J-Word; The Slave; Love; The Unknown Mrs Rosen; On Romford Road; and [NEW in 2026] Bella's Wish.
Home: NewForest, UK.
https://www.andrewsanger.com
Richard Wiles @richard-wiles.bsky.social Author | LaSource bilingual dictionaries 🇫🇷
Practical French for property owners, renovators & gardeners.
📘 Free Quick Reference Guide ↓
https://www.richardwiles.co.uk/french-property-terms
Richard Franks | Travel Writer @richardfranks.co.uk Award-winning travel writer and journalist specialising in Scotland, Birmingham, adventure travel and music. Words for BBC, Nat Geo, Telegraph, Independent, Rough Guides & others. Takes photos too.
hello@richardfranks.co.uk
www.richardfranks.co.uk
Douglas Paton @douglaspaton.bsky.social BC-based writer - talks about tech, nature, writing, fly fishing
Words in National Geographic, Men's Journal, and more.
sj armstrong @sjarmstrong.bsky.social travel writer. nat geo, newspapers, más. 🇮🇪🇵🇸
Stuart Kenny @stuart-kenny.com Scottish outdoor travel writer 🌲
✏️: The Guardian, BBC etc.
Katie Featherstone (Scotland/Iceland) @featherytravels.bsky.social Hiking/travel writer ◦ Inner Hebrides, Loch Lomond & the Trossachs, Iceland ◦ living in Port Ellen, Islay.
Books in this link ⬇️
linktr.ee/katiefeatherstone
James March @jmarchtravel.bsky.social Award-winning travel writer, guidebook author and fan of being elsewhere ✈️
Nat Geo Traveller, Telegraph, Lonely Planet, Conde Nast etc ✍️
jamesmarch.travel@gmail.com
Sally Coffey @sallycwrites.bsky.social Editor of Scotland magazine and Discover Britain. Scotland obsessive covering British travel for @Telegraph, @thetimes.com and more. Londoner born and bred. Honorary Derry Girl.
Jan Schroder @janschroder.bsky.social Atlanta-based travel writer eating and drinking my way around the world. Editor-in-chief of The Travel 100. #travel #writer #travelwriter www.thetravel100.com #satw
Eibhlis Gale-Coleman @eibhlisgc.bsky.social Freelance travel journalist with words in BBC Travel, CNT, The Guardian, National Geographic, and more.
📌 Leeds - UK
✈️ Ireland
eibhlisgalecoleman@gmail.com
Anesce Dremen 许梦安 @anescedremen.bsky.social Anesce Dremen is a U.S. writer and educator often found with a tea cup in hand, traveling between the U.S., China, and India.
Fulbright, Critical Language Scholarship, & Gilman alumna
AnesceDremen.com 
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
Rob Goss @robgoss.bsky.social Author. Writer. In Japan, from Devon.
Features, travel writing and books (LP, Nat Geo, etc).
Haiku & haibun. Short-form tinkering.
Latest book: Another Japan (Gestalten 2026)
www.robgosswriter.com
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
Melissa & Chris Bruntlett @modacitylife.com Dutch-Canadian authors and urban mobility advocates who strive to communicate the benefits of happier, healthier, more human-scale cities.
David Moser @davidmoserbeijing.bsky.social aka 莫大伟 Sinologist, linguist, jazz pianist. Author of "A Billion Voices: China's Search for a Common Language," Penguin Books. https://amzn.to/38rGZ2q
Austin Ramzy @austinramzy.bsky.social Wall Street Journal reporter in Hong Kong covering China and the world.
email: austin.ramzy@wsj.com signal: austinramzy.99
Paul Krugman @pkrugman.bsky.social Ex NY Times, now author of Substack Paul Krugman. Nobel laureate and, according to Donald Trump, "Deranged BUM". Also Research Professor at the City University of New York Graduate Center and senior scholar at the GC-CUNY Stone Center.
Neil Thomas 牛犇 @neilthomas123.bsky.social Fellow on Chinese Politics at Asia Society Policy Institute’s Center for China Analysis. Australian in DC. Views are my own.
Sixth Tone @sixthtone.bsky.social Fresh voices from today's China — news, features & commentary from a human perspective. Also on Facebook, Instagram, WeChat, & YouTube.
Website: www.sixthtone.com
Andreas Landwehr @andreaslandwehr.bsky.social German journalist, Beijing Bureau Chief of dpa German Press Agency for 30 years, Asia-Pacific Head until 2023. Liberty Award 2011. Former correspondent in U.S.
Rachel Cheung @rachelcheung.bsky.social Hong Kong-based staff writer with The Wire China. Formerly at VICE World News and SCMP.
Asia Society New York @newyork.asiasociety.org Welcome to Asia’s home in New York City! Asia Society and Museum brings together the best experts on Asian culture, arts, business, and policy.
Penn Project on the Future of U.S.-China Relations @penn-us-china.bsky.social Forum for next generation U.S. scholars and experts on China to contribute academically informed, policy relevant analysis on pressing issues in U.S.-China relations.
https://global.upenn.edu/future-of-us-china-relations/
Noah Barkin @noahbarkin.bsky.social Watching 🇪🇺 🇨🇳 🇺🇸 from Berlin. Try my newsletter: noahbarkin.substack.com
Rush Doshi @rushdoshi.bsky.social Assistant Professor at Georgetown • Director of the CFR China Strategy Initiative • Biden NSC China 2021-2024 • Author of The Long Game
Ellen Arnold @medievalpenguin.bsky.social Medievalist, environmental historian, penguin historian. Incoming editor of Environmental History. Author of Medieval Riverscapes, Negotiating the Landscape, and Water in World History. EFArnold.com
Penguin (even when you struggle you're still a penguin)
Hannah Theaker @htheaker.bsky.social Lecturer in History and Politics, University of Plymouth, researching histories of Islam, rebellion and minoritization in China; documenting the contemporary sinicisation of Islam in China
Craig Clunas @craigclunas.bsky.social art historian, Aberdonian
https://www.history.ox.ac.uk/people/professor-craig-clunas
https://www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/fellows/craig-clunas-FBA/
Dr Alex — lived-theory writing @afedorov.bsky.social Hong Kong & Asia | Religion, plurality & secularity
Sociology & education | Autoethnography & writing
Liminality | Infrastructures of aliveness
afedorov.com | #RaveAsMethod | jatb.nl
Bridge Books Dromore @bridgebooksdromore.bsky.social A tiny world of books and bookish gifts. Come visit, bring chocolate! Owner is a delight, at times. Drinker of terrible tea (allegedly)
Www.bridgebooksdromore.co.uk
Michael W @michaelwood8.bsky.social Medical journalist, Sydney, via Leeds.
I post stuff about my travels in China and random 1980s music and telly. Blog at josephrock.net
Sarah Elizabeth Cox @oispooky.bsky.social 🥊 1880s boxing+wrestling historian
📕 THE DEVILS' DANCE FLOOR (Duckworth '27)
✍🏻 Hezekiah Moscow, Alec Munroe, Sugar Goodson, Wannop, Smith, Ball &c.
👊🏻 Write fight books raise dinosaur child
👩🏻💻 Science charity PR
🏖️ Clacton-on-Sea
www.grapplingwithhistory.com
Frank Murphy 🇺🇦 🇮🇪 🇨🇦 @thesidewalkballet.bsky.social ⚪The economy of cities⚪Short block grid⚪3mph urban design
https://frankkevinmurphy.blogspot.com
"Lively diverse intense cities contain seeds of their own regeneration with energy enough to carry over for problems and needs outside themselves” Jane Jacobs
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