The Fiction Desk @thefictiondesk.com We’ve been publishing anthologies of new short fiction since 2010. Based in Scotland.
Anne Lamott @annelamott.bsky.social Mother, wife, Nana, activist, Sunday School teacher, sister. Bird by Bird, Somehow: Thoughts on Love. Old quotes compiled by Dean Dauphinais.
Katherine Mezzacappa @katmezzacappa.bsky.social Irish historical novelist living in Italy, published by Fairlight (Oxford), Histria (LV) and Stairwell (York). Writes too as Katie Hutton (Zaffre Books) and Kate Zarrelli (Romaunce). katherinemezzacappa.com
Michelle Ryles @thebookmagnet.bsky.social Book blogger at www.thebookmagnet.co.uk
Dr Sue Healy @suehealy.bsky.social Irish writer in London: screen/stage/radio/prose. University Lecturer. Literary manager @Finborough Theatre. Rep:
@jasminepilgrem @LisaRichardsUK, London, W6. Suehealy.org
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
Midge Gillies @midgegillies.bsky.social "Atlantic Furies" coming soon, Scribe UK - early women who flew the ocean. Existing Books: biogs of Amy Johnson, Marie Lloyd, Piccadilly Circus, #POWs ("The Barbed-Wire University") etc. #WW2 Creative writing tutor Cambridge. https://midgegillies.com/
The Pride Roars @theprideroars.bsky.social A collective of women's voices -2025 social media posts by @mlmcguinness.bsky.social
https://theprideroars.blogspot.com
Andrew Chatterton @historialchats.bsky.social Second World War historian, PR man and Exeter City fan.
Nicholas Petty @nicholaspetty.bsky.social Writer-ish.
Stories in New England Review, Story, The London Magazine, The Moth Magazine, Galley Beggar Prize, Desperate Literature, The Forge and elsewhere.
nicholaspetty.co.uk
Ann Cleeves @anncleeves.bsky.social Reader, crime-writer and advocate for libraries and the Reading for Wellbeing project. Creator of Vera Stanhope, Shetland and Matthew Venn, among others.
Emma Harding @emmaharding.bsky.social Writer | audio maker | poetry pusher. Editor Drama, Arts & Classical Music, BBC Audio Wales & West of England. Debut novel: The Berliners/Friedrichstrasse 19 https://www.hachette.co.uk/titles/emma-harding/the-berliners/9781529376203/
Paintings of London @paintingsoflondon.bsky.social London depicted by artists past and present.
“By seeing London, I have seen as much of life as the world can show.” Samuel Johnson.
Curated by @jamadden.bsky.social
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Eleanor Fuller @eleanorfuller.bsky.social Winner Far Horizons Award for Short Fiction 2023; finalist Fiddlehead Short Fiction Prize 2023 & Cambridge Short Story Prize 2024. Edith Wharton WiR 2024. Words: The Waxed Lemon, The Moth, Malahat, The New Quarterly & other lovelies. CCA-funded sabbatical!
Tom Vowler @tomvowler.bsky.social Word-botherer.
Winner V.S. Pritchett Short Story Prize
www.tomvowler.co.uk
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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/
Baltimore Review @baltimorereview.bsky.social A literary journal, founded in 1996, publishing poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction. https://baltimorereview.org/ 
Stephanie Carty @stephaniecarty.bsky.social Fond of creativity, pyjamas and kindness.
Emily Devane @devaneemily.bsky.social Writer, teacher, editor, bookseller. Collector of oddities.
Words in various places, including Smokelong, Lost Balloon, Ellipsis, Best Microfiction & Ambit.
London Lit Lab @londonlitlab.bsky.social Find your story at the city's friendliest creative writing workshops, where writers teach writers. @lilydunn.bsky.social and Zoe Gilbert - and also find us here: https://londonlitlab.substack.com/ and here londonlitlab.co.uk
Nicholas Royle @nicholasroyle.bsky.social Writer. Latest: Paris Fantastique from @confingopublishing.bsky.social and Finders, Keepers from @saltpublishing.com
Also runs @nightjarpress.bsky.social nightjarpress.weebly.com
Nuala O'Connor @nualaoconnor.bsky.social Writer. Irish. Autistic. Latest book: Menagerie (poetry).
https://nualaoconnor.com/
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/
Jan Carson @jancarsonwrites.bsky.social I’m not terrific but I’m competent
All bookings via website www.jancarson.co.uk
Giant Rat of Sumatra @giantratsumatra.bsky.social That again.
Roisin Meaney 💙📚 @roisinm.bsky.social Made in Ireland a long time ago. Cats, books, tea, spotty bananas. Trying to learn the ukulele.
Pub by Hachette Ireland and Sphere Books UK.
23 novels with my name on them - never gets less astonishing. Teasing out next.
Be kind, it's easy.
David Butler @davidbutlerbray.bsky.social Novelist, poet, short-storyist, playwright, also writes as Dara Kavanagh
Cath Barton @cathbwriter.bsky.social Writer
Hill-walker, Parkrunner
Seizer of opportunities
Winter knitter
https://cathbarton.com
Martin Doyle @martindoyle.bsky.social Books Editor of The Irish Times; author of Dirty Linen: The Troubles in My Home Place (Merrion Press)
Tracy Fells @theliterarypig.bsky.social WRITER. 2017 WINNER Commonwealth Prize Can & Eur. Author novella-in-flash Hairy On The Inside (Ad Hoc Fiction) S/L '22 Rubery Book Award. Short Story collection out now from Fly On The Wall Press. Buy now: rb.gy/esxcc. www.tracyfells.com
Louise Kennedy @louisekennedy.bsky.social Writer, galoot, sunscreen aficionado
north by northwest
Peter Jordan PhD @pjordan-writer.bsky.social 2 X Bridport Shortlist.
BBC Radio 4 & BBC Radio Ulster.
Not interested in politics!
Charles Lambert @charleslambert.bsky.social Novelist. European. Husband to Giuseppe. Fond of short trousers and brightly coloured socks (visual proof provided). Most recent novel? Birthright. Repped by Isobel Dixon @ Blake Friedmann.
Stephen Moran @sjmoran.com London Irish from Dublin, 1954-2854. Books: The London Silence, Day of the Flying Leaves, Ghosts and Pigeons. Made a living from computer programming. Website: StephenMoransMuseumOfIllusions.WordPress.com. "It's never too late to change the future" (HCR)
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
Jo Lloyd but jolly 🌍🐎 @jolloyds.bsky.social Writer
The Earth Thy Great Exchequer Ready Lies (UK)
Something Wonderful (US)
Winner BBC National Short Story Award #bbcnssa
O Henry
Stories in Zoetrope, Southern Review, Ploughshares, BBSS, &&
She/her
Ally
Short Story Comps @shortstorycomps.bsky.social Posts and reposts about short story / flash / micro competitions in the UK and beyond.
Jayson Carcione @carcionejay.bsky.social Fiction: The London Magazine, The Forge, Lunate, Epoque Press, elsewhere
Best of the Net 2024 finalist
Deputy Production Editor: Irish Examiner
Cork via New York
Jamey Gallagher @jameygallagher.bsky.social Author of BODIES IN BAGS, I AM IDRIS ELBA, and AMERICAN ANIMISM.
https://jameyg0.wixsite.com/jameygallagher
Community college writing teacher
I read and write: literary stuff, crime stuff, weird stuff
From NH, living in Baltimore.
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
Elizabeth McCracken @elizmccrack.bsky.social Complete fiction
Carol Farrelly @carolfarrelly.bsky.social Fiction writer. Ignite Fellow 2025: Scottish Book Trust. Winner: Canada & Europe, 2021 Commonwealth Short Story Prize. Stories: Granta, New Writing Scotland, BBC Radio 4. Www.carolfarrelly.com
Emily Mirengoff @emirengoff.bsky.social Half old lady, half baby. Fiction editor at TriQuarterly; stories in STORY, Santa Monica Review, and more. repped by @frecklywench.bsky.social www.emirengoff.com
Charlotte Tierney @charlieratpig.bsky.social https://www.waterstones.com/book/the-cat-bride/charlotte-tierney/9781784633622
Best British Short Stories ‘26 / Best Weird Fiction of the Year ‘25 / Conjunctions / The London Magazine / 3:AM / NER / Weird Horror.
All ‘moor, no snore.
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
hollowaywriter.bsky.social @hollowaywriter.bsky.social The Language of Remembering, my debut novel, out in February 2025. Work in The Stinging Fly, The London Magazine, Irish Times, Irish Examiner. Winner of Bath Short Story Award 2023. Agent Eleanor Birne, RCW
https://bio.site/patrickholloway
Vicky Grut @vickygrut.bsky.social Writer. Short story collection 'Live Show, Drink Included' shortlisted for 2019 Edge Hill Awards. Pushcart nominated, 2023. Work in Masters Review XIII in 2025 and Best British Short Stories 2026. www.vickygrut.com
Hannah Persaud @hpersaud.bsky.social Writer, wild swimmer, cyclist. ❤️ all things outdoors. Trying to live the one life fully whilst making a difference.
Shelley Hastings @shelleyhastings.bsky.social Writer | Producer | Artist Facilitator | Kitchen Raver | Arts & Dementia: Resonate Arts | Winner: Sean Ó Faoláin Prize & Aurora Prize | Stories: Irish Times, Desperate Literature, Southword, Miro, Chroma Editions…
www.shelleyhastings.co.uk
Marni Appleton @marniapple.bsky.social Writer. She/her. Author of I HOPE YOU’RE HAPPY
Giselle Leeb @giselleleeb.bsky.social Short story collection, Mammals, I Think We Are Called (@saltpublishing.bsky.social), Edge Hill Short Story Prize '23 Longlist, Word Factory Apprentice '19, Best British Short Stories '17 https://giselleleeb.com/
Jamie Guiney @jamesgwriter.bsky.social WRITER.
The Lightning (novel)
The Wooden Hill (stories)
Work Broadcast BBCRadio4
Nom 5 x Pushcart Prize
Judge 2025 Best in Rural Writing
L-list Irish SS of the Year
Husband. Dad. Tay drinker.
N Ireland.
www.jamieguiney.com
https://ko-fi.com/jamesgwriter
Fictive Dream @fictivedream.bsky.social Fictive Dream, the online #litmag dedicated to the #shortstory including #translations. Please send your submissions to fictivedream@gmail.com. Website https://fictivedream.com/
Rory @roryduffy.bsky.social Stories. Winner #ennisbookclub 2025 & #RedLineBookFest 2019 Shortlisted/runner up- Sean O'Faoláin, RTE Short Story Award (twice), #Cuirt, Bath, @WritersWeek. Wild Atlantic Words. John McGahern Award. PJ O'Connor. @ForwardPrizes nominee 2021. LL - Bridport
Megan Bradbury @meganbradbury.bsky.social Writer, editor, creative writing mentor, tutor @ National Centre for Writing. EVERYONE IS WATCHING / Picador / Neri Pozza / Czarna Owca / Elsinore. Repped by Sophie Lambert. www.meganbradbury.com.
Sara Schaff @saraschaff.bsky.social 2025 NYSCA Support for Artists Grant Recipient; 2024 NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellow in Fiction; Author of THE INVENTION OF LOVE and SAY SOMETHING NICE ABOUT ME; Professor of Creative Writing; Editor of Saranac Review
https://www.saraschaff.com
Eleonora Balsano @norami.bsky.social Writer/Lifelong Expat/Wigleaf Top 50 ‘25/ SL Bridport Prize ‘21 & ‘24/Host & Producer @chosentongue.bsky.social
eleonorabalsano.net
Fiona McKay @fionamckay.bsky.social Writer | THE TOP ROAD (AdHoc Fiction 2023) | DRAWN AND QUARTERED (Alien Buddha Press 2023) | THE LIVES OF THE DEAD (AdHoc Fiction July 2025) | Words in places | Autistic + ADHD
Ally to 🏳️🌈 and 🏳️⚧️
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Barbara Byar @barbarabyar.bsky.social Writer
Debut Novel: IN THE DESERT, OUT NOW
from @cowboyjamboree.bsky.social
Buy Here: https://a.co/d/0bucj1Yn
Collection: Some Days are Better than Ours (Reflex Fiction)
https://substack.com/@barbarabyar?utm_source=user-menu
Kerry via San Francisco
Tin House @tinhouse.bsky.social Publisher of award-winning fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. For the workshop, head to @mccormackwc.bsky.social.
Emma Timpany @emmatimpany.bsky.social Writer of fiction about loss, belonging, nature and place | Botanical Short Stories (editor) | Three Roads | Travelling in the Dark | (in)visibilities & Cornish Short Stories (co-editor) | The Lost of Syros
emmatimpany.wordpress.com
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Kate Horsley @katehorsleywriter.bsky.social Queer writer & Uni Lecturer | fiction in Smokelong, Wigleaf, Cincinnati Review, Citron Review, Vestal Review, Bridport, Bath, Oxford Flash | Novels - William Morrow & Harper Collins | Editor @inkfishmagazine.bsky.social
https://www.katehorsley.co.uk
Marissa Hoffmann @marissahoffmann.bsky.social …., and is a writer/editor of fiction & technical non-fiction. Prizes & bio at http://www.marissahoffmann.com/ incl. 2024 Bridport short story shortlist. Working on a short story collection. Currently enrolled in a course of study at The Stinging Fly.
Judy Birkbeck @judybirkbeck.bsky.social Writer. Novel: Behind the Mask is Nothing publd. by Holland House Books, + many short stories in litmags. Passionate about wildlife gardening. judybirkbeck.co.uk
Susanne Stich @lilysimage.bsky.social Writing in*The Stinging Fly*Winter Papers*Banshee*The Pig’s Back*Ambit*New Irish Writing* and elsewhere - German woman in Ireland - Shortlisted for Bristol Short Story Prize & RTÉ Short Story Prize - More info: www.susannestich.com
Vanessa Gebbie @vanessageb.bsky.social Writer, still.
Tabitha Potts @tabithapotts.bsky.social ✍️ UK Writer, host on Story Radio Podcast 🎙️. Longlisted #PMJWritersPrize. Quarter-finalist Vail Screenplay Contest 📖 👻 Horror novel 2026 with @rowanprosepub.bsky.social
🔗 https://linktr.ee/tabithapotts
Kathy Hoyle @kathyhoyle.bsky.social Writer, dreamer, PhD student. Northern lass. Words at @nffr.bsky.social @theforge.bsky.social @fictiveDream.bsky.social @SoFloPoJo.bsky.social Winner @Bathflashaward.bsky.social Writing bot for @writershq.bsky.social
https://kathyhoyle.com
Kathy Fish @kathyfish.bsky.social Ploughshares | Best American Nonreq'd | Copper Nickel Editors' Prize | The Norton Reader | ElectricLit | Flash Fiction America | Swamp Pink | Wigleaf | Five Points (forthcoming) | The Art of Flash Fiction https://artofflashfiction.substack.com
Estella Rua @estellarua.bsky.social Entirely fictional
Shortlisted for Brighton Book Festival Emerging Authors Award 2023
IG: @estella_rua_writer
Katie Lumsden @katiejlumsden.bsky.social Booktuber (Books and Things). Historical fiction author. Freelance editor. Reader. Part-time Victorian.
✍️The Trouble with Mrs Montgomery Hurst, The Secrets of Hartwood Hall
📚Hosts #victober #janeaustenjuly
She/her
Historia – the HWA @historia-hwa.bsky.social Historia Magazine is the online magazine of the Historical Writers’ Association
historiamag.com
historicalwriters.org
Sarah Turner @scturnerfiction.bsky.social Writer. Short stories in: The Rumpus, Sonora Review, J Journal, Shooter Lit Mag, London Magazine, Fictive Dream, LEON, Litro & others | SL Bridport SS | Read my work at: www.scturnerfiction.com
Emma Devlin @theactualemma.bsky.social Writer w work in Irish Times, Stinging Fly & more | 2026 Ciaran Carson Writing and the City Fellow at SHC | Rep'd by Sophie Scard | https://linktr.ee/emma.devlin.writer
Alice Fowler @alicefwrites.bsky.social Award-winning writer of short stories & longer fiction. Debut short story collection, The Truth Has Arms and Legs, published 2023 by @flyonthewallpress.bsky.social
www.alicefowlerauthor.com www.linktr.ee/alicefowlerauthor 
Ian Critchley @iancritchley.bsky.social Writer and Editor | Winner Hammond House, HISSAC | Stories in Best British Short Stories, Mechanics Institute Review, Structo, Lighthouse, Litro, Fiction Desk and others | Short story chapbook published by Nightjar Press
iancritchley.com
Niamh Mac Cabe @niamhmaccabe.bsky.social Writer, artist, stylite.
Fair to middling spinster.
Magpie apologist.
Good at everything.
Northwestern Ireland.
Also Instagram, and X.
https://niamhmaccabe.wixsite.com/mysite
Sinéad Gleeson @sineadgleeson.bsky.social 🇮🇪 Writer Hagstone | Constellations | This Woman’s Work (with Kim Gordon) | Agent: Peter Straus at RCW | Newsletter: momentsofrecognition.substack.com
Penguin Books @penguinbooksusa.bsky.social We publish fiction and nonfiction adorned with the famous dignified but flippant logo.
Charlotte Northedge @charnorth.bsky.social Head of Books for the Guardian, author of The People Before and The House Guest (HarperCollins)
Daunt Books @dauntbooks.bsky.social 
The Orion Publishing Group @orionbooks.bsky.social Where every story matters 📚
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Weidenfeld & Nicolson @wnbooks.bsky.social Ground-breaking, award-winning, thought-provoking books since 1949.
An imprint of Orion Publishing Group, part of Hachette UK
Influx Press @influxpress.bsky.social Award-winning independent publisher.
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Head of Zeus @headofzeus.bsky.social 📚 Home to great stories and bestselling authors
📚 Award-winning independent division of Bloomsbury Publishing
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Pan Macmillan @panmacmillan.bsky.social We publish a broad and vibrant range of books for audiences of all ages.
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The Society of Authors @societyofauthors.bsky.social Empowering authors since 1884. The largest UK union for writers, illustrators and literary translators. #societyofauthors #humanauthored
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Oneworld Publications @oneworldbooks.bsky.social 📖Independent Publishers founded in 1986
💌Literary fiction and non-fiction from around the world
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Anna Mazzola @annamazz.bsky.social Writer. Very small. Books normal size. THE CLOCKWORK GIRL, BOOK OF SECRETS etc. Writes thrillers as Anna Sharpe.
Also a criminal justice lawyer and a dark history geek.
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.
Scratch Books @scratchbooks.bsky.social A small press dedicated to the short story. Claustrophiles…
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.
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