Kirsten Miles, Author 🌹 @kirstenmiles.bsky.social Author of "Heroes of Gold Country" (2025) 🎻
"Emma Revived" (2026)🌙
"In My Sister's Shadow" (coming soon)
Visit me at kirstenmilesauthor.com 💕
🏳️🌈🇸🇪💋🪺✈️⛵️🌕🌊
I do not read DMs here.
Michelle Scott Tucker @mst-writes.bsky.social Australian biographer, writer, reader, gardener, muse, dirty lefty and terrible cook.
Working on Louisa Lawson biography.
SPIRIT OF THE CROCODILE (A&U, 2025), SO FAR, SO GOOD (Pantera 2022), ELIZABETH MACARTHUR (Text 2018).
www.MichelleScottTucker.com
Angela Meyer @literaryminded.bsky.social Author: JOAN SMOKES, A SUPERIOR SPECTRE, MOON SUGAR ✨ writing & publishing lecturer ✨ former publisher & bookseller✨ bi ✨ https://linktr.ee/AngelaMeyer
Tim Coronel @timcoronel.bsky.social Toiling in the word mines for decades. Publishing/comms lecturer at Unimelb. Opinions, I got plenty. Join your union/s!
Pippa @pippaesque.bsky.social Prune Juice Editor. I write short things and long things. Zines, poems, art. I like birds.
Buy me a ko-fi: Ko-fi.com/pippaesque. 🏳️🌈
Deborah @debbish.bsky.social Find me at debbish.com
Anuja Cabraal @anujacabraal.bsky.social Sharing info on qualitative research. trainer/consultant; NVivo and Quirkos trainer, Using emoji as a tool for analysis @AnujaCabraal@aus.social #QualitativeResearch
Dr Caitlin Noakes @cernoakes.bsky.social Creative Writing | Futures | History | Higher Ed
Views are my own 🦘
Daniel Rolph Author @danielrolphauthor.bsky.social Daniel Rolph grew up in the UK foster care system, experiencing firsthand the challenges that come with it. Now, he's channelling those experiences into his debut novel, Shattered Paths
Buy Now: https://geni.us/OEi75Gh
Melly @whimsicalconfusion.bsky.social Aussie, feminist, anti fascist, anti bigot, love books, politics, social justice. Neurodivergent mumma. Gen X. #IRebel
Living on Dharug/Gundungura land. Always was, always will be.
And I’m just really, really tired….
No DMs unless you know me IRL. 😊
Paddy O'Reilly @paddy-oreilly.bsky.social Writer and reader
Cassandra O'Leary @cassandraoleary.bsky.social Romance and romcom author, Aussie, book lover, 100% gluten free. Probably buying shoes and drinking coffee.❤️📖
Website - cassandraolearyaouthor.com Links - https://linktr.ee/cassandraolearyauthor
Following #Romancelandia #booksky #authors
Rowena Tuziak @rowenatuziak.bsky.social Posts about writerly things and readerly things. ✏️ 📖 🙃
Joy Lawn @joyinbooks.bsky.social Book advocate, reviewer and judge. I blog as ‘Joy in Books’ at PaperbarkWords blog & interview authors and illustrators. https://paperbarkwords.blog/ 
Michael @ Knowledge Lost @knowledgelost.bsky.social Reading the world
Australian, Literary Critic, Blogger, Philosopher & Intellectual Badass (INTJ)(he/him)
https://lnk.bio/knowledgelost
Matilda Waltzin. @vikingsteel.bsky.social She Neuters Nazis.
Police-Military-Veteran.
Horror Author. LA. 💙🌊
Thomas Edmund @thomasedmund.bsky.social Writer (by which I mean daydreamer)
I post my book reviews, own thoughts, and work here: https://thomasedmundblog.wordpress.com/
(also love indie games and psychologist IRL)
F*** Fascism
Leon Furze @leonfurze.com PhD candidate and consultant working with and sometimes against AI in education. Leonfurze.com / practicalaistrategies.com
Angela VDG @avgulik.bsky.social Canadian. Optimist. A strong advocate for human kindness. Tired of hate, racism and bad behaviour. No DMs 🚫#liberal #bluewave #elbowsup #buycanadian
Blackheath Weather @blackheathweather.bsky.social Blue Mountains NSW Australia. Snow. Storms. Fires. Mindfulness. Poetry. Photography. Fashion. Mental Health. Disability. Seniors. 🌈
Community Project:
https://www.blackheathweather.com/ourweathercommunity.html
Website: https://www.blackheathweather.com
Kathy George @kathygeorge234.bsky.social Author. Thalassophile. Gothic fiction. Dickens retellings. The Scent of Oranges. Estella.
Lives Brisbane, Australia.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0D64193ZW
Michael Simms 💬🚴🏻♂️☕🥑🐾 @aushounddog.bsky.social autodidact, rider of bikes, evader of bicycle shaped objects, seller of ideas, older than I look, younger than I sound, born at 319ppm
gadigal country
Natasha Neary @natashaneary.bsky.social Author of two crime thrillers. Shortlisted for HarperCollins’ Banjo prize 2023, working towards publication. Beach lover, occasional lush, Groodle walker, on Sydney’s Northern Beaches. Member of the @allwriteclub
Dr Dani Netherclift @dani-netherclift.bsky.social Essayist and poet. My book Vessel is out on January 13 with Assembly Press in Canada and the US. Australian, living on never-ceded Taungurung Country. President Mansfield Readers & Writers Festival.
Tina @tinabrennan.bsky.social Lefty who loves books, coffee and craft 🧶Disabled mum to 3 w/ADHD and AuDHD 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ 🇵🇸
bradpsychology @bradpsychology.bsky.social My progressive views are my own, and could be yours too if only you applied yourself more. Retired psychologist. Trophy husband. Kept in the basement. Send police.
Nikki McWatters @nikkimcwatters.bsky.social A big fan of kindness. Author of 2 memoirs and 3 YA novels. The HEXENHAUS trilogy. Blue Mountains, Australia. https://nikkimcwatters.wordpress.com/
Greg Barron @gregbarron.bsky.social Ngambaa Country. Author of contemporary and historical page turners, published by HarperCollins and Stories of Oz Publishing. Avid reader and bushwalker. Newest release is Wild Dog River.
Shelleyrae @ Book’d Out @shelleyrae.bsky.social Mostly I’m about #bookish stuff http://www.bookdout.wordpress.com
but have eclectic interests so you can expect the occasional diversion
https://linktr.ee/shelleyrae_bookdout
Rahnia Collins - writer @rahniacollins.bsky.social Writer of murder mysteries. By day she hides this lethal writer persona behind her sarcastic English teacher alter ego. By night she writes and drinks tea...far too much tea!
The Book Muse - Ashleigh @thebookmuse1.bsky.social Writer, reviewer, disabled, book lover and cat lover. Picture Book Activist, kid lit advocate. She/her
https://ashleighmeikle.com.au https://www.weekendnotes.com/sydney/writer/186/ https://substack.com/@ashleighthebookmuse
Jonty Claypole @jontyclaypole.bsky.social CEO, Red Room Poetry
Host and producer, the Secret Life of Books
Author of Words Fail Us
Newtown Review of Books @newtownbooks.bsky.social Sydney's original online review of books, established March 2012 by Jean Bedford and Linda Funnell. We are a free and independent site for book reviews. Find us at https://newtownreviewofbooks.com.au/
On Gadigal land. Posts by LF. 
Nicole Davisson @nic-davisson.bsky.social Meezer mom 🐈⬛(siamese cats),PhD student at the U of U, small business owner w/ my kiddo refabulizing furniture with delovely art🎨, democratic socialist, feminist, late bloomer🪷🏳️🌈yacht rock lover⛵️🌊teatime keeper🫖 www.lavienouveaudecorshoppe.com
Lucy Treloar @lucytreloar.bsky.social Writer: Salt Creek (2015), Wolfe Island (2019), Days of Innocence and Wonder (2023); Agent: Curtis Brown Australia; haphazard but enthusiastic gardener. Love my family and my darling whippets.
Susan Arms @susanarms.bsky.social Children's author, writer, reader, tea drinker, crochet as therapy, CPTSD recovery. On Awabakal land. Confused but hopeful. She/her.
Susanne Merritt @susannemerritt.bsky.social Australian writer and children's book author
C. Signy Maraine 🛹🐢 @csignymaraine.bsky.social Wordlarker 🛹🐢 Poetry, nature, photo art. Jesus follower. Grace and peace. Not religion. Julian of Norwich fan. Teen horror fiction writer. Author of DREAD THE BOARDS
my works©️
she/her 🌈🕊
Steve Griffiths @writersteve.bsky.social Writer, editor, lover, eejit.
Freelance Editor at EARLY MORNING EDITS.
Wayne Fenlon @waynefenlon.bsky.social Author of: WHERE THE MOOD LEADS
THE BLACK CABIN
SCATTERED LITTLE PIECES
http://mybook.to/ScatteredLittlePieces
https://mybook.to/TheBlackCabin
https://mybook.to/Where-the-Mood-Leads
Ian Hazzard @cactusian.bsky.social Likes many things, including art, cactus, music, movies. Not as much into sport as I once was.
#ActuallyAutistic #Leukaemia 
Something You Said @somethingyousaid.bsky.social A music and culture website that champions the artists you’ve never heard of just as much as the ones you have. somethingyousaid.com
Chloe Paige @chloepaige.bsky.social 📚 Writer of many things. Reader of even more things
🏆 Winner of the Elegant Literature Award, The Booby Prize & NYC Midnight
✏️ Found here and IG: @chloepaigeauthor
Joni Page Author @jonipageauthor.bsky.social Wild child. Optimist.
Writer of captivating, happy tales.
Author of Beach Shorts - a Sandthology & The Feminist EarthMother PartyGirl.
Website: www.jonipage.com
Gratefully living on Kaurna Country, Australia.
Robin Raven @robinraven.bsky.social I'm a travel writer, author, vegan, journalist, liberal, Swiftie, SAG-AFTRA actress, songwriter. I am the author of The Little Book of Self-Soothing, The Kindness Workbook, and Santa's First Vegan Christmas. New books are coming soon! 
Robert Fairhead @tallandtrue.bsky.social Share my writing and blogging on http://TallAndTrue.com and podcasts at http://TallAndTrueShortReads.com. ❤️ #BeingADad #Dogs #Books #Writing #SydneySwans #VoiceToParliament #Sydney/#Gadigal 🚫 DMs (unless we know each other)
Archie @artemwriting.bsky.social UPenn. MBA. Books 📚 Writing ✍️ Art 🎨 Cooking & Gardening 🌱 Photos my own 📸 Married. From California ☀️ Got a Wacko Immune System 😅 Connecting here 🤗 https://substack.com/@archartem
lainie cat she/her 🍉 @lainiecat.bsky.social lover of books, justice and, occasionally, a little treat
Suellen @suellenswords.bsky.social Writing, reading, learning, the environment, photography, arts and crafts.
I will block you if you message me when I follow you.
Kerry P (Author & Editor) @kerrypwrites.bsky.social 💻 Editor. CIEP professional member.
💞 Author of contemporary romance and romcoms with heart, heat & HEA.
💜 WIP: Hearts Adrift.
🧠 Neurodivergent.
Library of Anglo-American Culture & History @libraryaac.bsky.social Library of Anglo-American Culture & History #FIDAAC
Resources for British, Irish, Australian, New Zealand, American & Canadian Studies
https://libaac.de/
https://libaac.de/legal-notice/
Allison @ktulurose.bsky.social Lover of 70s, 80s rock🎸 grunge 🫦psychedelia 🎵🎶✌️pets 🐶🐱ancient history ⚱️🗿 look after our planet! 🌎🌍 politically engaged Aussie🌏 - Be Kind! 🌈It doesn't hurt, I swear!
AHA (Australia) @austhistassoc.bsky.social The Australian Historical Association was founded in 1973 and is the peak national organisation of historians working in all fields of history.
https://theaha.org.au
Nav Garnet @navgarnet.bsky.social Writer. Film major. 70% chai. Writing with the Soul Alumni. Stories with haunt, heritage, and heart swoon.
bio.site/nayagraham
Steve Downes @writerstevedownes.bsky.social Author of Fyre & Stone crime/historical fiction series.
Books on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Waterstones, Apple Books & Google Play
Australasian Association for Digital Humanities (aaDH) @aadh.bsky.social The Australasian Association for Digital Humanities Inc (aaDH): A community strengthening digital humanities research in Australia & Aotearoa (New Zealand) | https://aa-dh.org/ | Our 2025 conference: dha25.org
Edits & Annotations @editsannotations.bsky.social A podcast from the Roderick Centre for Australian Literature and Creative Writing. Season 2 releasing now, with new episodes on Tuesdays and Thursdays!
Listen here: https://podfollow.com/editsannotations/view
Journal of Australian Studies @jas-jozstudies.bsky.social Scholarship and reviews on Australian culture, society, politics, history, and literature. Published on behalf of the International Australian Studies Association (InASA).
https://www.tandfonline.com/journals/rjau20
Rod Benson, PhD @ethicl.bsky.social Literature, poetry, philosophy, ethics, politics, history, theology, religion, food. Writer, blogger, educator. PhD in systematic theology. Sydney-based, living on unceded Dharug land. Opinions are mine. Be kind. Pls don’t DM. He/him. https://rodbenson.com
Victoria Purman @victoriapurman.bsky.social Australian bestselling novelist. Feminist. Reader. Golden Retriever owner.
Jen Kingsford @jenkingsford.bsky.social Indie writer of historical fiction featuring courageous women. Loves reading, travelling and drinking tea.
jenkingsford.com
Fearless Friend @fearlessfriend.bsky.social Newcastle NSW F/T carer, gay, aficionado of great coffee, love books (literature, fiction, classics, detective fiction, mysteries, science fiction, fantasy, biographies, history & cinema), old libraries, old movies, film noir etc…
Tony White @tonywhite.bsky.social London author. Latest novel Phantom at the Feast out now on No Exit Press. Tony White is an RLF Fellow. CWA member. Views my own. No DMs. Mailing list etc.👇🏼
https://linktr.ee/author_tonywhite
Helga @helganr.bsky.social 💻 Psychological Thriller / Mystery / Horror Writer
✍🏼(WIP: 4M+ Words), Multi-Book Series
📝Status: Draft 5 (Full Series Rewrite)
Amy de la Force, Author @amydelaforce.bsky.social
A KISS OF HAMMER & FLAME 📘 Out now!
A CROWN OF BLOOD & MAGICK 📕 15 Sep 2026
(Canelo, DK, Penguin Random House)
Whimsigoth #SpecFic writer. She / her 🇦🇺 🏳️🌈 🇬🇧
SL: Lucy Cavendish Fiction Prize 2024
Rep: PFD London
https://linktr.ee/amydelaforce
Emma Kinsley @kinsleywrites.bsky.social Writer, editor, proofreader, and book nerd.
Specializing in romance, fantasy, speculative fiction, and more.
She/her. DMs currently closed. Watch this space!
Elly @ellyzoe.bsky.social Ridiculous and extra. Multidisciplinerdy. Lit & writing major, CS PhD, teacher of many subjects, jack of many trades. Jewish hillbilly in the PNW. 🏳️🌈 Fix your hearts or die. she/they/elle/iel. English/Français
🐘 ellyzoe@mas.to
🌩️👀 9MDQTEGZfpxH
Evan @evansmithhist.bsky.social Academic/Writer - History/Politics/Criminology - British, Australian & southern African (plus transnational) history - he/him - top 2% researchers 2024 (Stanford/Elsevier rankings) - views own - cult classic, not best seller - DMs will, alas, remain unread
Reggiesmum AU @reggiesmum.bsky.social Previously Bertiesmum on that other one - https://x.com/Christi58156854
No DMs or Message. You will be blocked
skigod @skigod.bsky.social Firm opinions but prepared to change with better information. Dad and step-dad, St Kilda CC, skier, comms/corporate affairs, Carlton FC, atheist, sceptic, rationalist, business founder, budding author. Former journalist. Personal views only. Australian-ish
Tina Cartwright (she/her) @humsentence.bsky.social Writer. Wurundjeri country. Novelist thinking about poetry.
LL Michael Gifkins Prize for an Unpublished Novel 2023 and 2024.
Finalist #tasmanianwritersprize 2025
Longlisted #cwprize 2025
https://www.tina-cartwright.com/about
Kitty @katydidnt6.bsky.social Back from my identity crisis. Unapologetically unhinged. Team Oxford comma. I still write tho…sometimes.
Katy Mayfair 📚 @katymayfair.bsky.social Aussie author. Here for the books and writing chat ❤
hergreyside @hergreyside.bsky.social Poet of strong natures + soft forces
Sensuality | Gravities | Motherhood
📍Meanjin/Brisbane AUS 🇦🇺
Querying book 2
Kat Clay @katclay.com 🎲 ENNIE and ARPIA award-winning TTRPG author. Editor @chaosium.bsky.social. Short stories in Interzone, Aurealis, and Cosmic Horror Monthly. Game reviews on YouTube.
Hobbit in a leather jacket. 🇦🇺🐨 katclay.com
Laura Paisley Beck @waamscabam.bsky.social Book author, queer 🏳️🌈 consultant helping LGBTQ 🏳️🌈 friendly businesses get IN with Inclusivity, and Portugal lover. Dog mom to Janis Pup. Owner of Wa’am Writes, LLC.
www.WaamWritesLLC.com
Sherryl writes and reads @sherrylwriter.bsky.social Writer of crime fiction and books for young readers of all ages. Most recent crime novel is "Woman, Missing" (HQ). Love reading. Edit part-time. Owner (servant) of a cat.
Sean Williams aka theAdelaidean @adelaidesean.bsky.social 60 books for all ages. 13 albums for Projekt Records. Teaching at Flinders University. That's my real family photo.
www.seanwilliams.com
www.theadelaidean.com
Francis H Powell writer and poet @fhpowellwriter.bsky.social I'm an artist, musician, poet, writer, a creative being. I live in France, but born in the UK. I have written anything from horror books to a children's book. Vegetarian, dog lover, anti war maybe a bit woke Follow me if you can.
#vss365 #writingcommunity
Nikky Lee - Author @nikkythewriter.com SFFH Author | Aurealis Award Winner, Ditmar Best New Talent, Sir Julius Vogel Award Winner | she/her
📘 THE RARKYN TRILOGY
📘 ONCE WE FLEW
📘 A NIGHT SO DARK AND FULL OF STARS
📍Aotearoa New Zealand
www.nikkythewriter.com
mike @phantomdiorama.bsky.social Writer. Houseplant. He/Him.
Doing life and future book stuff with @kittenflower.bsky.social
michaelbuckleywriter.com
https://ko-fi.com/phantomdiorama
Sarah Copland @sarahyvonne.bsky.social Dedicated to fighting for women's rights and gender equality | Mother of 3 | feminist | writer | fighting for justice for my son Isaac, killed in the 4 August 2020 #BeirutBlast
Emily | Coffee, Books, Magic @coffeebooksmagic.bsky.social (too?) honest book reviewer. fan of a hot drink, a good book, and a little magical thinking. Originally from NZ, now in Perth, Aus. Lover of sunshine, poetry and solitude. Late identified AuDHD
Kristina Makansi | Marie K. Savage @kbmakansi.bsky.social Indie author, editor, designer, lefty AF, science lover, no DMs kristinamakansi.com
Marié Rojas Tamayo @mariewriter1963.bsky.social Published writer, more than 30 books 📚 🖋️ 🔮
Mother of two illustrators.
Kid's books, speculative fiction, sci-fi, haunted houses, paranormal, fantasy, poetry, cats.
Not looking for agents!
#writer #writingcommunity #author #kidsbooks #specfic #book #books
Nova Weetman @novaweetman.bsky.social writer of MG novels like Sick Bay and The Edge of Thirteen and adult memoir, Love, Death & Other Scenes. 
Kylie @kyliemmason.com Freelance book editor based in Sydney, Australia. AuDHD. Working on Bidjigal land. I created a workbook to help writers self-edit their novel: https://kyliemmason.com/after-the-first-draft-workbook/
Also my kid's stan account.
Mireille Juchau @mireillejuchau.bsky.social Writer, Critic. The World Without Us (Bloomsbury), Burning In (Giramondo). Essays here and there. Researching archives, dreams and war.
www.mireillejuchau.com
Penny Tangey @pennytangey.bsky.social Writer for young people, sometimes librarian. Mention the climate crisis and criticise fossil fuel sponsorships whenever I possible can.
Tom Doig @tomdoig.bsky.social e.g. Artist, dog lover and avid reader
Melbourne City of Literature Office @melcityoflit.bsky.social The official Blue Sky account for the Melbourne UNESCO City of Literature office.
https://linktr.ee/melcityoflit
Ika Willis @ikax.bsky.social I'm an education-focussed academic & Head of School, Culture & Communication, at the Uni of Melbourne. Talk to me about decolonising education, inclusive pedagogy, workload models, process mapping, and management as praxis. Views mine not my employer's.
Sallie Butler @salsibee.bsky.social Lover of the arts, books and gigs. Mum to Ernie
Nabil Hamzaki @nhamzaki.bsky.social Reader. Progressive politics. Social justice. Voted Yes. Free Palestine.
The Landing Light @thelandinglight.bsky.social Otherworldly short story podcast and stage show.
'Hancock's Half Hour meets The Twilight Zone'
Available to stream on all major platforms.
https://open.spotify.com/show/7sPX9pBoACTZShQ1gpldcr?si=d552ec60c937401d
paul dalgarno @pauldalgarno.bsky.social Author. A Country of Eternal Light, Prudish Nation, Poly, And You May Find Yourself 🏴 🇦🇺Here for the book chat
Laurie Bell @writerlauriebell.bsky.social Sci fi and fantasy author, blogger, reviewer, secret keeper. My opinions are my own. Author of Boss From Hell, White Fire and more. She/her
Jessica Friedmann @msfriedmann.bsky.social Writer, editor, tarot-lover, nice dogs etc. Author THINGS THAT HELPED 🌸 and TWENTY-TWO IMPRESSIONS 🔮
Living and writing on the unceded lands of the Boonwurrung people of the Kulin nation.
RaRa @rarazz.bsky.social Fighting the urge to not give up
AustLit @austlit.bsky.social AustLit is a bio-bibliographical database of stories by Australians and about Australia.
https://www.austlit.edu.au/