Daphne Harries @daphneharries.bsky.social 🏴🇦🇺 | she/her | English student @ Oxford | ‘Three Strikes’, my poetry pamphlet around Llŷn y Fan Fach, out now with Lemon Jelly Press (2026) | Creative-critical editor and co-founder of TOUAR | usually down to chat, always up to share a pot of tea.
Rhys Kaminski-Jones @rhyskamjones.bsky.social Celtic Revivals and Imperial Cultures. Research Fellow at University of Wales (CAWCS) on C18th/19th travel in Wales, Scotland, and India. Cymrawd Oddi Cartref
Book: 'Welsh Revivalism in Imperial Britain' (2025), Francis Jones Prize Winner
He/They/Fo/Nhw
EMILY WILSON @emilyrcwilson.bsky.social https://emily613.substack.com/
Padma Stratton @grumblygoose.bsky.social Writer of sapphic romance, in all genres | Servant to 2 orange cats | Lesbian | she/her | tired of this, grandpa
repped by @knifewitch.bsky.social at @kiagency.bsky.social
Clarion West @clarionwest.bsky.social Workshops for people who are serious about writing.
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Mateusz Fafinski @calthalas.bsky.social Late antiquity, early Middle Ages, manuscripts, cities and monasticism. A bit of digital humanities and maps as well.
Assistant Professor at the University of Erfurt
Fiona Barnett @fibiscuit.bsky.social Books, ghosts and visible mending. One of life's pedestrians. Returning to social media extremely slowly.
Anathema Magazine @anathemamagazine.bsky.social Speculative literature by and for queer people of color. We are now OPEN for submissions! 💜
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FIYAH Literary Magazine @fiyahlitmag.bsky.social Award-winning Magazine of Black Speculative Fiction. Submissions CLOSED. Publisher + Executive Editor: @davaun.bsky.social #fiyahlitmag
Jen Brown ✨ @jenbrownwrites.bsky.social Bi, Black academic librarian (she/her); Ignyte Award nom'd SFF author; Clarion West alum (Novel Workshop '25). Stories in Fantasy, Reactor, FIYAH, & more (🔗s on jencbrown.com).
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Dead Ink Books @deadinkbooks.bsky.social Independent publisher of bold new fiction and non-fiction, based in Liverpool
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Kathryn Julian @kcjulian.bsky.social Historian | Writer of Horror and Speculative Fiction | Queer Catholic | she/they | Views my own
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Mary Flannery @15thcgossipgirl.bsky.social Explorer of books, lover of words. Developmental editor and grant-writer by day, humorist by night. Substacking at Page by Page.
Jenny Dolfen @jennydolfen.bsky.social 🌈She/her. Visually disabled artist (Tolkien, Stormlight Archive, Critical Role, D&D, Fantasy, Mythology). Teacher (Latin/English). Pronounced "Yenny". Older than the Internet. No genAI, ever.
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Dublin 2029 @dublin2029.bsky.social The bid for the Dublin 2029 World Science Fiction Convention 🇮🇪
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Vivian Fernandes @vfernandesauthor.bsky.social Author @ Ki Agency | Graphic Designer | Food lover | 29 | giving my inner narrator(s) somewhere to workshop their monologues
Claire E. Aubin @ceaubin.com "A scholar and a hater" - The Guardian
◦ historian of really bad guys @ Yale
◦ host, This Guy Sucked
◦ author, THE HOMELAND (coming summer 2027) & FALSE IDOLS (2028)
all opinions my own.
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Isaac Fellman @isaac-fellman.bsky.social Writer and archivist. NOTES FROM A REGICIDE (Spring '25), THE TWO DOCTORS GÓRSKI (Fall '22), DEAD COLLECTIONS (Spring '22), THE BREATH OF THE SUN ('18, Lambda winner). He/him. 🏳️⚧️ Rep Kate McKean.
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James Wright @jpwarchaeology.bsky.social Award-winning buildings archaeologist. FSA. Mediaeval mythbuster. Castles. Old pubs. Theatre. Alan Garner. Cats. Live music. Ex-roadie.
Triskele Heritage
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zack 🦇 commissions open! @vampbyte.bsky.social he/him | 28 | illustrator and comic artist | horror and fantasy freak | weary vampire | 🏳️⚧️ | @gladcowe.bsky.social 🖤
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TC Parker (she/her) @tcparker.bsky.social Neuroqueer Luddite. Angry feminist. Cis, but hormonally augmented. Writer/EIC, Nefarious Bat Press 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
PhD, media/politics. Semiotics, CDA, storytelling
No DMs please, I'm British
Books at https://payhip.com/NefariousBatPress/collection/tc-parker
Mark Boardman @markboardman.bsky.social Illustrator, heavy metal listener
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Dr Victoria Leonard @tigerlilyrocks.bsky.social Ancient, late ancient, and later ancient historian
Research Fellow, Institute of Classical Studies, University of London
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Iain MacInnes @iainmacinnesuhi.bsky.social Academic | Historian | Associate Dean | Scottish History | Medieval History | Military History | Medievalism | Comics Studies | Stoke City
Eirnin @eirnin.bsky.social PhDing: Vikings and white supremacy, IHR London | trans dykefag | they/them
Dr Matilda Fitzmaurice @matildaf.bsky.social Bi. Lecturer int. climate politics, futures, childless geographies. UCU NEC LGBTQ+ rep (HE), 26/27 Equality Chair
UCU Commons. I mainly post about Girls Aloud. She/her
https://orcid.org/0009-0005-5220-0914
Jorgie 🎃 @jorgiereads.bsky.social She/her | fantasy/sci-fi/horror fangirl | Assistant Editor at Penguin Michael Joseph (all thoughts are my own) ✨
Tristan Gray @eidyngray.scot 🏳️🌈 author and activist in 🏴
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Jaymee Goh (she/her) @jhameia.bsky.social Hugo-nominated Editor of @tachyonpub, PhD Comp Lit UC Riverside '17, Clarion UCSD '16, Malaysian Writers Society Prez
Joyce (Wolf) Chng/Ch'ng 🐺 Wolf's Path is a finalist! @jolantru.bsky.social Werewolves.(Hugo winner) Strange Horizons Articles Senior Ed & Fiction Ed. COS
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I. R. Fox @irfoxwriter.bsky.social Writer 📖✨
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London, UK 🇬🇧
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Dr Mike Hollows/MJ Hollows He/Him @mikehollows.bsky.social "The John Lewis Christmas Advert of Authors." Historical fiction/SFF Author. PhD Creative Writing (Science Fiction)/Lecturer. ME/CFS, late diagnosed ADHD. He/Him. Liverpool-based. Rep’d by Liverpool Literary Agency
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Ben Evans @ogkittylyst.bsky.social Cisqueer author / educator / software eng known for #architecture #performance #observability #Java #JVM
Chaos acc: #cats #antifascism #queer >> #tech
Cornishman in Barcelona. He / him.
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Danai Christopoulou | VILE LADY VILLAINS out NOW @danaiwrites.bsky.social VILE LADY VILLAINS (UK: Penguin Michael Joseph / US: Union Square & Co) ✨Rep: Lauren Bieker✨Editor: khōréō ✨Associate Literary Agent: Tobias Literary Agency✨she/they🏳️🌈🇬🇷
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Salon Sinister @salonsinister.com Salon Sinister is dedicated to documenting the 2SLGBTQIA+ experience through horror.
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Marve with an 'E' @justmarvewrites.bsky.social Future Bestselling Author of FIRSTBORN OF THE SUN ☀️🧡Out with Penguin Michael Joseph, Oct 23, 2025
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DongWon Song @dongwon.bsky.social literary agent. newsletter: http://publishingishard.com
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Divergent Paths @divergent-paths.bsky.social Helping neurodivergent people in the publishing industry find a different way.
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Kris Vyas-Myall @krisvm.bsky.social Reviewer of books, bunny snuggler, Non-Binary & Genderqueer (they/them), god of excel & filled with geeky squee.
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Jamie Cowen @jamiecowen.bsky.social MD of The Ampersand Agency. Literary Agent. Reader, footballer and musician. Quite tall. https://theampersandagency.co.uk/about
@maasslitagency.bsky.social @maasslitagency.bsky.social The Donald Maass Literary Agency in New York City is a literary agency for professional novelists.
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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social Martial Artist. Executioner of Mediocrity.
Ex-Washington Post.
Substack: https://substack.com/@karenattiah?r=2bz6j&utm_medium=ios
Rogue Radical Professor: @resistanceschool.bsky.social
Robert Houghton @robehoughton.bsky.social Lecturer in Medieval History at the University of Winchester. Author of The Middle Ages in Computer Games. Co-organiser of the Middle Ages in Modern Games conference. Italy; Investiture Contest; Games.
Thom Gobbitt 🎲✨🌿☠️⚖️📖 @booksoflaw.bsky.social #Earlymedieval -ist, focusing on the #history of #law and #lawbooks from the 6th-13th centuries.
Postdoc historian on the #PresentDead project
Also #lawplay and #medieval set #TTRPG, and idly creating the #LangobardRPG.
he/him
Peat @peat.bsky.social No guts no glory. Power Music, Electric Revival. Boy from the County Hell. Wibble.
Molly Templeton @mollytempleton.com I read, I write, & I pet cats. Column, news, & book reviews at @reactorsff.bsky.social; publicity, prize, & more for @ursulakleguin.com. Once a bookseller, always a bookseller. PDX.
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World Fantasy 2025 @worldfantasy2025.bsky.social World Fantasy Convention, Brighton UK
Dates: Thursday 30th October - 2nd November 2025
Venue: Double Tree by Hilton Brighton Metropole
Website: https://worldfantasy2025.co.uk
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Riley Black 🏳️⚧️ 🦕 @restingdinoface.bsky.social Bronto-queen, big cat, best-selling and award-winning author of The Last Days of the Dinosaurs, When the Earth Was Green, Tyrant Lizard Queen (out October 27), and Megatooth. 🔞 she/they/it. Skreeonk. rileyblack.net
Miri Baker (learning capital-T Tailoring) @miribaker.bsky.social Bi-ace writer of aggro-ace fantasy, seamstress, bard, quality assurer, reflexive gamer, cosplayer @ millimetriccosplay dot com/on insta. icon carriecmoney.bsky.social
Houndsaint🔜 MFF @houndsaint.bsky.social Medievalist printmaker. I carve & print hard lino using Pfeil palm tools & Hanco/Cranfield/Van Son inks.
Please don’t tattoo my art. 34. They/them 🏳️⚧️
houndsaint.etsy.com
Toni Kirkpatrick @tonimargarita.bsky.social Senior Editor at Diversion Books, author, Chair of Latinx in Publishing
Jay Hulme @jayhulmepoet.bsky.social Poet. Speaker. Educator. Performer. Adult, YA, and Children's poetry. Occasionally picture books. Lots of posts about churches. Unapologetically trans (he/him) jayhulme.com
Ambrosia @ambrosialouise.bsky.social Writer & Senior Narrative Designer | Prev Fable, NFS, Battlefield | 2025 Future Worlds Prize Shortlist | Rep: Fabienne Schwizer @ Ki Agency | She/They
Elle Tesch ✨💫 @zipitelle.bsky.social 🇨🇦 Fantasy author of bells, bones, and buried gods
🌿Up next: THE GODS WE BURIED (Summer '27) @getunderlined
🌿Rep: Stuti Telidevara + Pete Knapp
Caspar Geon @caspargeon.bsky.social Author of PKD award nominated non-human space opera THE IMMEASURABLE HEAVEN, published by Solaris.
Also known as that weirdo Tom Toner, author of the Amaranthine Spectrum, published by Gollancz
Developmental editor at CBC
https://linktr.ee/caspargeon
Alison Hennessey @alisonhennessey.bsky.social Publishing Director of Raven Books, an imprint of Bloomsbury Books. Lover of the gripping & the gothic, the contemporary & the cunning. Comprehensive school girl in literary world. Easily bribed with a chocolate orange. 
Dr Emmet Taylor @emmettaylor.bsky.social Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Early and Medieval Irish at University College Cork.
Farah Rahman @farahinspace.bsky.social Writer, cat-butler. she/ they. Debut author of HIMALAYAN BLUE, which will be published by Firehorse Books in Feb '27. I also write short stories for grown-ups. www.farahinspace.com.
AJ Fitzwater ⬛🟪⬜️🟨 @ajfitzwater.bsky.social Feral cryptid from the void writing well bent SFF. they/them causing may/hem.
“The Voyages of Cinrak the Dapper”: http://books2read.com/u/3kpE6L
"No Man's Land": currently unavailable.
Website: ajfitzwater.com
Repped by: @knifewitch.bsky.social
Rhian Parry 🏴📚 @dearrhian.bsky.social Romance & Fantasy author 🧚🏼♀️💖| Literary Agent 📖| Cymraes 🏴| She/her | https://linktr.ee/Rhianparry
Annalise @annalisejensen.bsky.social 🏳️🌈 30, Australian, she/her. freelance illustrator.
prev clients include Dimension 20 and Critical Role 💚
Fairydoll comic💜
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AK Faulkner @ravenswordpress.com Your friendly local agender trauma merchant.
Bereaved and current Corgi parent. Cat chew-toy.
Visually impaired, posts may contain typos.
Any pronouns.
https://ravenswordpress.com/
https://www.patreon.com/AKFaulkner
https://ko-fi.com/akfaulkner
Amalie/AR Frederiksen @arfrederiksen.bsky.social she/her | Portrait of Two Women (Titan, 2028) | rep: Christine Goss at FinePrint | words in Haven Spec, Shortwave, CHM & more | reads for Diabolical Plots, Small Wonders, Khoreo | teaches southgateschool.dk
✨ https://www.arfrederiksen.com/link-hub
Kristina Gehrmann @kristinagehrmann.bsky.social Freelance illustrator for books & publishing. Fantasy, romance, history.
Clients include: HarperCollins, Penguin, Hachette, Darrington Press, book boxes etc.
She/her, deaf. #NoAI
www.kristinagehrmann.com
info@kristinagehrmann.com
Carnyx Press @carnyxpress.co.uk Northern speculative fiction micropress • Northumberland, UK • Human made • Our first anthology: carnyxpress.co.uk/products/oaths-and-offerings
Ellen Kushner @ellenkushner.bsky.social Author & woman around town. Married to Delia Sherman. Wrote Swordspoint. Host/writer of public radio’s Sound & Spirit. A new gig every 17 years. Back to writing novels. Seeking for further amusement.
I would probably like you.
The Bookseller @thebookseller.com At the heart of the book trade since 1858📚
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Mal Frazier (they/them) @malf.bsky.social Your favorite editorial toddler. Acquiring for Tor and Bramble. PNW 🌲
Alex de Campi @alexdecampi.bsky.social On your bookshelf: THE SCOTTISH BOY, REVERSAL, PARASOCIAL, BAD KARMA. On your TV: BLADE RUNNER: BLACK LOTUS, SCAVENGERS REIGN. Lit: Paula Weiman at Ash Literary. Film/TV: Sean Berard @ Untitled. Newsletter: https://buttondown.com/themagpie . She/her/Mother
Dr Ella Hawkins @ellamchawk.bsky.social Design, Shakespeare, biscuit art. Senior Lecturer in Research & Innovation at the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama. Book: Shakespeare in Elizabethan Costume (Bloomsbury Arden Shakespeare). She/her.
Oliver Darkshire @deathbybadger.bsky.social dire homosexual 🏳️🌈 - ONCE UPON A TOME [2022] 📚 - ISABELLA NAGG AND THE POT OF BASIL [2025] 🪴- THE DEVIL AND MRS GOOCH [2026] 😈 - One Page RPGS 🎲 - 🏠 Manchester, UK
https://linktr.ee/oliverdarkshire
cass biehn | VESUVIUS out now 🌋 @cassbeewrites.bsky.social Author of VESUVIUS, ICARUS FELL (2027), & THOUGH THIS BE MADNESS (2028). Writer of messy boys in love. They/them 🌋
Rep: Allegra Martschenko at BookEnds Lit
https://linktr.ee/cassbee
Meg @meganflynnwrites.bsky.social Meg. She/Her. SFF and Horror writer. Reader. Full-time nerd. Probably overthinking. Drinker of Tea. Hoarder of notebooks. Rep'd by Helen Lane at the Ki Agency
Nicholas Whyte 白怀珂 @nwhyte.bsky.social He/him. International affairs strategist & expert, science fiction fan, psephologist; posts personal. Will block rude people and bigots.
http://fromtheheartofeurope.eu
Liesa Abrams @batgirleditor.bsky.social Editor-in-chief of Labyrinth Road imprint at Random House Children’s Books. Publishing books that help kids escape where they are while feeling seen for who they are. Obsessed with Batman and gluten-free muffins.
Charlotte Francis @cfranciswrites.bsky.social (Charlotte Harris) 🏴🇳🇱
SFF writer
Rep: @helenlane.bsky.social
Website: https://charlotte-francis.com
IG: https://www.instagram.com/c_francis_writes/
Bethany Fulk Hendrix @bethanyfulk.bsky.social Literary Agent at Spencerhill Associates • YA writer • Lover of all things Disney and chocolate
E.M. Faulds / Beth or Taxes / Not em faulds @emfaulds.com Award-winning Scottish science fiction & fantasy writer. Podcastle, Strange Horizons, Shoreline of Infinity, ParSec, Best of British SF. More: emfaulds.com NEW HANDLE, bethkesh will still work.
#scruffyGarden
Runs @bibliotta.bsky.social
Speculative Insight journal @speculativeinsight.bsky.social A journal that explores the breadth and depth of the themes, ideas, and issues of science fiction and fantasy. Ed. Alexandra Pierce.
https://www.speculativeinsight.com/
Nicole Filippone, Autistic Advocate & Author @nicolefilippone.bsky.social Advocating through science based education, validation, and empathy
Nicolefilipponeauthor.com/my-links
Nefarious Bat Press @nefariousbatpress.bsky.social We're an indie press specialising in queer horror, crime & dark fiction, run by TC Parker & Shauna Mc Eleney
(Skeets by TC/N, occasionally SME)
We like intersectional feminism. A lot
🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🇮🇪
No GenAI. No DMs (we can't see them)
www.nefariousbatpress.com
Glasgow Eastercon 2027 @eastercon2027.org The 2027 Eastercon in Glasgow
https://linktr.ee/GlasgowEastercon2027
Iridescence - The 2026 Eastercon @easterconuk.bsky.social Iridescence 2026 is the UK's next Eastercon, the UK's longest running sci-fi convention. At the Hilton Birmingham Metropole, 3-6 April 2026.
https://eastercon2026.org/
Tristan Grayford @tristangrayford.scot 🏳️🌈 activist in 🏴
Views entirely my own
Co-founder @endconversiontherapy.scot
Serial political policy author
(he/they) ↙︎↙︎↙︎
⚔️ Emer ⚔️ @eethok.bsky.social They/She ⚔️ Lesbian ⚔️Illustrator and Convention Artist ⚔️ Making a world of folklore and fantasy! ⚔️Next Convention: MCM London
K.L. Brandt @bearattorney.bsky.social Argues on behalf of beasts | Spec Writer, Painter, Over-Committer | Let's talk monsters 🦇| HWA & SFWA Member | they/them | Rep: @knifewitch.bsky.social | https://klbrandt.carrd.co/
Andie Smith @andiesmithbooks.bsky.social 📚 Associate Agent at Creative Media Agency
✍🏼 Editor at Sun & Spines Editorial
🎙️ Co-Host of Flublishing Podcast
linktr.ee/andiesmithbooks
Alice Ruppert 🐴🎮 @malicedafirenze.bsky.social Horse Game Consultant. Game Designer, Producer, Writer. Creator of @themanequest.com and doing marketing at @okomotive.ch and @thoglistudios.com
Based in Zurich, Switzerland http://aliceruppert.ch/ (she/her)
Miriam 🐸 @chamomeriam.bsky.social 🏳️🌈🇮🇹 || they/she || AALA literary agent at @ the Ki Agency || Writing & Publishing MA
Christine Goss- Closed to Queries @cgossagent.bsky.social Associate Literary Agent with FinePrint Lit.
Laura Bennett @losbennett.bsky.social Literary Agent at the Liverpool Literary Agency with a focus on underrepresented SFF writers.
More info & submissions: https://www.liverpool-literary.agency
She/her.
James Bennett | Pre-order "Mother of Night" @jamesbennett.bsky.social British Fantasy Award-Winning author 🏳️🌈
The Ben Garston Novels. The Dark magazine.
"Mother of Night" March 2027 from Evil Twin (Zando Books)
Web: https://james-bennett.org/
'Inventive and vivid'
Publishers Weekly
🚫 AI
Margaret Owen @what-eats-owls.bsky.social doodler, demi, USA Today, Sunday Times, and NYT #1 bestselling author of LITTLE THIEVES, THE MERCIFUL CROW, ROOTBOUND & more ✨ She/her. Rep: Victoria Marini
Leanne (L. A.) Schwartz @schwartzwords.bsky.social YA fantasy: A PRAYER FOR VENGEANCE and TO A DARKER SHORE / adult romcom: MY KIND OF TROUBLE / sadder but wiser / autistic / fat / 🌈 / 🇮🇹 / theater / (she/they) Repped by: Alex Land/Mad Woman Literary
https://linktr.ee/leanneschwartz
Neon Hemlock @neonhemlock.bsky.social World Fantasy, Nebula, Ignyte, Locus & Shirley Jackson Award-winning speculative publisher. Baffling Magazine & novellas & anthos & queer 📚. Editor: dave ring.
Eleonor Piteira @eleonorpiteira.bsky.social Pés na terra e asas na mão | Freelance Illustrator from Portugal 🇵🇹 | she/her | https://linktr.ee/eleonorpiteira | FaB & MtG art | Clients: Digital Extremes, Del Rey, Tor, Orbit
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No NF/Ts, No A/I 'art'