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Door Is A Jar Literary Magazine @doorisajarmag.bsky.social Quarterly literary magazine of #poetry, short #fiction, #nonfiction, #drama, #art and #bookreviews with cadence and personality to take readers on a journey.
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Jo Lloyd but jolly 🌍🐎 @jolloyds.bsky.social Writer
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Something Wonderful (US)
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Paul Fulcher @fulcherkim.bsky.social Trustee of the Republic of Consciousness Foundation, fan of innovative literary fiction from small presses, actuary, 한국어 (Korean) learner. Views own.
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Stephen Hipkin @stephenhipkin.bsky.social Retired economic and social historian of early modern England. Now learning new stuff. Centre-left, Internationalist, and Francophile. Trying to stay positive.
People of 1381 @peopleof1381.bsky.social 'The People of 1381' is a major AHRC-funded project investigating participants in the Peasants' Revolt of 1381 in England. It has compiled a comprehensive database of rebels, victims and places affected by the revolt: www.1381.online.
Historical Materialism Journal @histmat.bsky.social Historical Materialism is the leading journal of critical Marxist theory and research. Based at the University of London, published by De Gruyter Brill, appearing quarterly.
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Catharine Morris @catharinemorris.bsky.social Executive Editor at The TLS (@thetls.bsky.social). Commissioning in Biography, Memoir, Travel, Book History, Language. Freelance writer
George Cochrane @georgeccochrane.bsky.social Writer and editor based in Newcastle. ✍️ TLS, Telegraph, FT et al.
Daniel Trilling @trillingual.bsky.social Journalist and author in London. LRB, Guardian Long Read and others. Books about refugees in Europe and Britain's far right. danieltrilling.co.uk for contact details etc
Jessie Childs @jessiechilds.bsky.social Writer. Historian. Books:
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God’s Traitors
Henry VIII’s Last Victim
Reviews for the Times and LRB
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Libre @librelit.bsky.social A southern literature & arts mag bent on brain pain, taking the narrative back, jiggling it open, extracting the oyster from its background of compressed pain to reexamine what it means to scavenge for agency in liminal states of illness.
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Genrepunk Magazine @genrepunkmag.bsky.social Literary magazine for weird little experiments. 🏳️🌈 ♿️ 🇵🇸 🤘🏻
Run by Audrey T. Carroll (https://bsky.app/profile/audreytcarroll.bsky.social).
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Structo @structo.bsky.social A literary magazine and small press.
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Tony Riches @tonyriches.bsky.social Historical Fiction Author from Pembrokeshire, Wales 🏴 www.tonyriches.com Visit my #Writing #Blog The Writing Desk https://tonyriches.blogspot.com/ #Podcast https://tonyriches.podbean.com/ #Tudors #Elizabethan #HistoricalFiction
Breakthrough Books @breakthroughbook.bsky.social An award-winning indie publisher putting creatives and readers first, with lovingly made, quality books… and a fair deal! E-shop now open on our website!
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Abridged @abridgedmagazine.bsky.social Poetry / Art Magazine Edited by Susanna Galbraith and Gregory McCartney. Abridged since 2004. A Derry Magazine. www.abridged.zone
Literary Heist @literaryheist.bsky.social Taking back the arts!
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Efrogwraig @efrogwraig.bsky.social Cymraes in Sheffield. Retired to spend more time with my books. Labour. Inclusive Anglican. Libraries. Cake.
Colm Brennan @colmgbrennan.bsky.social Poet & Writer
Poetry Ireland Review • Banshee • The Waxed Lemon • Sonder • The Cormorant • Profiles • The Ogham Stone • Arts Council Literature Bursary • MA in creative writing from UL
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Kirsten Mosher @kirstenmosher.bsky.social Writing & Arting and most recently Plea$e Steal Me for 100 Plus Dollar-zz, a plea in twenty-ONE panels. https://lilypoetryreview.blog/lily-poetry-chapbooks/pleae-steal-me-for-100-plus-dollar-zza-plea-in-twenty-one-panels/
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dianebluegreen @dianebluegreen.bsky.social scholar nerd,interested in biography,history,architecture,interior design,art,midcentury modern,art deco,more
Adam Rowan @shinjutnt.bsky.social Black lab dad. Writer and ambient musician. The Dynasty of the Divine out now!
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Anakana Schofield @anakanaschofield.bsky.social 🚨LIBRARY OF BROTHEL MAY 2026 Knopf Canada Jan 2027 NYRB
“tips it off the cliff” Globe
“One of the most adventurous writers working in English today”
“sui generis”
Award winning author of Bina, Martin John & Malarky
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Niamh Mac Cabe @niamhmaccabe.bsky.social Writer, artist, stylite.
Fair to middling spinster.
Magpie apologist.
Good at everything.
Northwestern Ireland.
Also Instagram, and X.
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Robert Loyko-Greer @robertloyko-greer.bsky.social Book publicist:
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@viperbooks.bsky.social
I co-edited an anthology called 22 FICTIONS:
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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
W. J. Davies @wjdavies.bsky.social Writer. Essays, fiction and reviews in the Times Literary Supplement, Slightly Foxed, Exacting Clam, Review 31, Poetry Birmingham, minor literature[s]. Author of Beckett and the Second World War (Bloomsbury)
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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
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Martin Doyle @martindoyle.bsky.social Books Editor of The Irish Times; author of Dirty Linen: The Troubles in My Home Place (Merrion Press)
Irina Dumitrescu @irinadumitrescu.bsky.social Writer, medievalist, co-editor of @creativecritical.bsky.social. Writing a book about medieval imperfection.
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Gav Clarke @gavclarke.bsky.social Interested in poetry, jumping in the sea... produces bits and bytes, films, events... Eile Press, Irish Literary Society, the Barbellion Prize and other stuff. https://eile.press/wave/
PN Review @pnreview.bsky.social The UK's most stimulating literary journal, where the many worlds of poetry converse. Published by @carcanet.bsky.social. Subscribe here: http://goo.gl/QNqGCH
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Goldsmiths Prize @goldsmithsprize.bsky.social The literary prize rewarding mould-breaking fiction, launched and run by Goldsmiths UoL in association with the New Statesman
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Modernist Studies Association (MSA) @moderniststudies.bsky.social This is the official MSA Bluesky account run by @kweingarten.bsky.social. Find us at moderniststudies.org for more information about future conferences and other events.
Rob Hawkes @robbhawkes.bsky.social Money happens; @moneyontheleft.bsky.social editorial collective; credit @wherecreditsdue.bsky.social; Former Chair @modernistudies.bsky.social; researching literature, money, and trust; he/him; https://linktr.ee/robhawkesMotL
Frank Wynne @terribleman.com Irish literary translator, editor, writer, 2022 International Booker Chair. he/him/oi, you! 🌈
Burned By Books Literary Podcast @burnedbybooks.bsky.social Burnedbybooks.com
Literature Professor with a books podcast. Guests include: Jennifer Egan, Percival Everett, AM Homes, Rebecca Makkai, Kevin Wilson, Victor LaValle, Celeste Ng, Katie Kitamura, Elif Batuman. Author of: http://tiny.cc/3e7vzz
Lee Rourke @leerourke.bsky.social Author: GLITCH | VANTABLACK | THE CANAL | VULGAR THINGS | VARROA DESTRUCTOR | EVERYDAY. Contributing Editor: @3ammagazine. Mancunian: #mufc Agent: @Donaldwin_
ᒪIᔕᗩ GᑌIᗪᗩᖇIᑎI @bluestalking.bsky.social 📚 Book Reviewing Coddiwompler 📚
Current: New York Journal of Books, words in: Chicago Tribune, Glasgow Review 🏴, Foreword, etc. NBCC voting member.
Resister of fascism, happy cooker, garden dabbler, infrequent blogger. New role: Nana to Ruth.
Jason Arthur @jasonarthur.bsky.social Associate Publishing Director at Granta Books. Late of the parishes of Routledge, Jonathan Cape, Vintage and William Heinemann.
James Elkins @purelyfiction.bsky.social I teach at the School of the Art Institute, Chicago. Here for writing: experimental, fictional, constrained, with images, with music. My book reviews are on Goodreads. All the art stuff is over on Academia.
Burley Fisher Books @burleyfisher.bsky.social We sell books in Haggerston, London. New + used + antiquarian. Also zines, coffee, events + a riso press (not for sale, but come print with us)! www.burleyfisherbooks.com.
Toril Moi @torilmoi.bsky.social Teaches at Duke University, sometimes works for Norway's National Library, writes for various magazines.
Julian Stannard @julianstannardpoet.bsky.social I’m the author of nine collections of poetry ; the most recent Please Don’t Bomb the Ghost of My Brother ( Salt , 2023 ) ; a novel
- The University of Bliss is published by Sagging Meniscus Press (2024 ) In 2024 I was awarded the Lerici Shelley Prize
Beckett at Reading @beckettreading.bsky.social News and Events from The Samuel Beckett Research Centre and the Beckett International Foundation at the University of Reading, UK.
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
Manchester Review @manchesterreview.bsky.social The Manchester Review is an online literary journal that brings together the best of new international writing.
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Creative Critical @creativecritical.bsky.social creativecritical.net is an online journal for writing and teaching that explores the relationship between creative and critical practices
Eds: Irina Dumitrescu, Gabriel Flynn & Thomas Karshan
Submissions: editors@creativecritical.net
Slightly Foxed @slightlyfoxed.bsky.social The magazine for people who love books | We also publish limited-edition memoirs & biographies and produce a well-loved literary podcast.
foxedquarterly.com
Dave Appleby @daja57.bsky.social Obsessive reader: reviews on https://davesbookblog-daja.blogspot.com/
Writer of Motherdarling, The Kids of God and Bally and Bro.
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Granta Books @grantabooks.bsky.social Independent literary publishers. Discover our books here: http://granta.com/books/.
Rémi Forte @rmfrt.com Poetic Program, Typographic System
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Nightjar Press @nightjarpress.bsky.social Single short story chapbooks since 2009. Uncanny, dark, experimental. Manchester/London. Editor @nicholasroyle.bsky.social. Design @johnoakey.bsky.social.
The James Joyce Centre @jamesjoycecentre.bsky.social The official account of the James Joyce Centre, a museum and cultural institution dedicated to promoting the life and work of James Joyce.
Plan your visit at www.jamesjoyce.ie.
📍35 N. Great George’s St., Dublin
🚪Tuesday to Saturday, 10.30am to 4.30pm
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D. H. Lawrence Society of North America @dhlawrencesocna.bsky.social Official 🟦☁️ account for the DHLSNA, a non-profit academic org. Managed by @buxiduan.bsky.social, assistant social media coordinator of the Society. Website: https://dhlsna.bravesites.com/
The Wyndham Lewis Society @lewisian.bsky.social Society dedicated to promoting knowledge of the art and literature of the protean modernist satirist, Wyndham Lewis
"We only want Tragedy if it can clench its side muscles like hands on its belly, and bring to the surface a laugh like a bomb." BLAST, 1914
@conor30.bsky.social @conor30.bsky.social
Anna Chen @annachen.bsky.social London-born writer, historian, poet & broadcaster.
Orwell Prize shortlisted. Ted speaker.
BBC presenter & writer back when it was good.
https://www.annachen.co.uk/home/about-anna-chen/
Charles Shaar Murray @charlesshaarmurray.bsky.social Elderly gentleman of scholarly mien and sedentary ways. Spent most of the last half century hanging around with musicians. Author of Crosstown Traffic (about Jimi Hendrix) and Boogie Man (about John Lee Hooker). Not a fan of the current state of the world
Donna Coonan @donna1.bsky.social Book lover, editor, feminist. Formerly longest serving publisher of the Virago Modern Classics 📚
Currently reading 'A Memoir of My Former Self' by Hilary Mantel; 'War & Peace' by Tolstoy; 'Tolstoy Together' by Yiyun Li; 'Deacon King King' by James McBride
Five Leaves Bookshop @fiveleavesbooks.bsky.social Nottingham's city centre independent and radical bookshop, est. 2013
Publishing as Five Leaves since 1995
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We organise about a hundred events a year. Fast ordering service. Four book clubs.
LRB Bookshop @londonreviewbookshop.co.uk 20,000 titles across two floors in Bloomsbury, plus the best events in town.
Visit us at 14 Bury Place, London, WC1A 2JL, or browse at https://www.londonreviewbookshop.co.uk
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Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social #1 Sunday Times bestselling author, because apparently that matters. New Statesman, New World, Oh God What Now, The Newsletter of (Not Quite) Everything, Paper Cuts (RIP). Londoner. *Not* an American.
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Read at lrb.co.uk
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Little Toller Books @littletollerbooks.bsky.social Award winning indie publisher of new and classic writing on place, nature and culture + The Clearing our online journal.
Based in West Dorset
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Instagram / @littletollerbooks
Ed Wood @edwoodagent.bsky.social Literary Agent and Director of Fiction Development at The Blair Partnership.
Fiction, crime, thriller, mystery, book club, gothic, horror. All views my own.
Submissions: https://www.theblairpartnership.com/literary-agents/ed-wood/
Marcus Rediker @marcusrediker.bsky.social Historian (from below), award-winning author, filmmaker, playwright, Distinguished Professor, University of Pittsburgh
marcusrediker.com
Charles Boyle @cbeditions.bsky.social Writer and publisher (CB editions, 2007 to now: www.cbeditions.com)
Nigel Stanley @nigelstanley.bsky.social London based photographer, walker and bass guitarist. Retired from trade union comms and pensions geekery. Labour insidery - a distant memory. Lack of influencer.
Bryony Rudkin @bryony1963.bsky.social Councillor. PhD at 63. Swimmer. Mother in law. Take your pick.
Paul Anderson @paul-anderson.bsky.social Journalist (ex-Tribune ed, ex-New Statesman dep ed, ex-Guardian sub), author, retired hackademic (LCP, City, Brunel, Essex), libertarian socialist, Ipswich Town
the engine(idling lit @the-engine-idling.bsky.social the engine(idling is an online literary magazine for the restless. unique themed issues.
www.engineidling.net
EIC Danielle McMahon (@dehm000.bsky.social)
Stu Hennigan @stuhennigan.bsky.social Writer, poet, editor, musician.
Ghost Signs (Bluemoose 2022)
Keshed (Ortac Press, 12.02.26)
Disappear Here: Bret Easton Ellis' America (Ortac, 2027)
#MDANT
https://uk.bookshop.org/contributors/stu-hennigan
https://stuhennigan.substack.com/
Marie-Elsa Roche Bragg @marie-elsa.bsky.social
Neglected Books @neglectedbooks.com Brad Bigelow, Missoula, MT
bradbigelow.com
Author, Virginia Faulkner: A Life in Two Acts
Editor, Recovered Books series @ Boiler House Press:
www.boilerhouse.press/recovered-books
Editor, neglectedbooks.com. Champion of reading off the beaten/AI path.
Tramp Press @tramppress.bsky.social Independent book publisher. The Most Normal Woman by Roisin Kiberd forthcoming end of August! Supported by the Arts Council of Ireland.
Jonathan Walker @newishpuritan.bsky.social Ex-historian of Venice, writer, editor. Author of The Angels of L19, Push Process (a novel with photographs), and other books. (Banner image by Dan Hallett.)
jonathanwalkerwriter.uk
jonwalkereditorial.co.uk
jonathanwalkersblog.blogspot.com
Jeremy Noel-Tod @jntod.bsky.social Poetry critic and editor. Norwich is my New York. Writing about poetry here: https://someflowerssoon.substack.com/
Sam Leith @questingvole.bsky.social @spectator lit ed. “Clock-white, still friendly to the earth.” https://bit.ly/TheHauntedWood
Curious Fox @curiousfoxbooks.bsky.social English books in Berlin. New & 2nd-hand.
Lausitzer Platz 17, 10997 Berlin-Kreuzberg.
T. 030-25093220
Co-owner David does the posting.
Browse and order online at www.curiousfoxbooks.com
Anne Nolan @annenolan.bsky.social Small press publishing and photography. Publisher at Two Rivers Press and Redden Press. Favourite thinker: Kurt Vonnegut.
English: Journal of the English Association @englishjournaloup.bsky.social English is dedicated to new developments in English Studies. It publishes work that speaks to the discipline as a whole, including reflections on pedagogy and on the place of English Literature in the world beyond academia https://academic.oup.com/english
Toby Litt @tobylitt.bsky.social Writer. Mentor. Activist.
I teach Creative Writing at Southampton University.
https://awritersdiary.substack.com/
Ian Duhig @ianduhig.bsky.social 'An Arbitrary Light Bulb' the Poetry Book Society Winter 2024 Choice: "some of the most moving, restrained, memorable and technically adroit poetry of our times" --- TLS, 3/25
Patrick Collier @patcollier.bsky.social Associate Dean (I know...), professor, writer, trying to put my best love out into the world
Colm O'Shea @colmoshea.bsky.social [Untitled]: A Meditation, available from LJMcD Communications
Work in gorse, The Stinging Fly, Winter Papers, 3AM Magazine, The Tangerine among others
Winner of The Aleph Writing Prize 2019
www.astainonsilence.com
David Hayden @davidhayden.bsky.social Former tech writer, construction worker, bookseller. Greenpeace alum.
Jake Goldsmith @jgoldsmith.bsky.social Author. https://www.saggingmeniscus.com/authors/jake_goldsmith/
Contributing editor to Exacting Clam.
Founder of The Barbellion Prize.
https://barbellionprize.org
https://www.jakegoldsmithauthor.com
Freedom Press @freedompress.bsky.social Britain's oldest anarchist publication and bookshop, founded in 1886. Occasionally disreputable.
freedomnews.org.uk for news, freedompress.org.uk for books
editor@ or shop@freedompress.org.uk to contact
https://linktr.ee/f_p
Ben Fenton @benfenton.bsky.social Media/politics(Washington Corr covered 2 US presidential elections); Fairness - Author of TO BE FAIR https://menschpublishing.com/books/to-be-fair/ Formerly: Chair, Orwell Journalism Prize; FT chief media corr; Telegraph Senior Reporter & DC correspondent