Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com History isn't made by kings or politicians, it's made by us: billions of ordinary people. https://patreon.com/workingclasshistory
Byron Writers Festival @byronwritersfest.bsky.social Australia's largest regional writers festival. Byron Bay, Bundjalung Country. https://www.byronwritersfestival.com
Australian Book Review @austbookreview.bsky.social One of Australia’s leading literary magazines. We publish reviews, essays, commentary, and creative writing, and offer several prizes and fellowships. Home to the Jolley, Porter, and Calibre prizes.
www.australianbookreview.com.au
Alia Parker @aliaparker.bsky.social Writer & Freelance Journalist. Author of mindflexing.com.au and the Mind Flexing Sound Bites podcast. Living on Dhudhuroa land in the foothills of Australia's snow country.
Text Publishing @textpublishing.bsky.social A publisher of literary fiction and non-fiction. Three-time ABIAs Small Publisher of the Year; 2018 Leading Edge Books Small Publisher of the Year.
Madison Griffiths @madisongriffiths.bsky.social Journalist and writer, author of TISSUE (Ultimo Press).
Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social https://linktr.ee/roxanegay
Writer, editor, publisher, professor. Some people call me a bad feminist and by some people I mean me.
Grace Chan @gracechanwrites.bsky.social Sci-fi writer, Aurealis-winner. EVERY VERSION OF YOU: USyd People's Choice Awards, Stella longlist, optioned for 🎬. Short fiction in many places! -- gracechanwrites.com
#scifi #speculativefiction #author #writer
Patti Miller @pattimillerwriter.bsky.social Writer, (books, articles, essays), memoir teacher, long-distance walker, book-lover, nature-lover.
Emerging Writers' Festival @emergingwriters.bsky.social #EWF26 10-18 Sept 2026
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Mirandi Riwoe @mirandir.bsky.social Riwoe/Tjia, sometimes other. Author, Sunbirds, Stone Sky Gold Mountain, The Fish Girl, The Burnished Sun
Steve MinOn @minon.bsky.social Meanjin/Brisbane Author. Miles Franklin shortlist. Qld Literary Award winner. MUD Literary Prize shortlist. Dublin Award nominee. First Name Second Name (UQP 2025). Make Them Say Poo (Affirm 2026). Agent Martin Shaw.
The Wheeler Centre @wheelercentre.bsky.social Australia's first dedicated centre for Books, Writing and Ideas. 
Kristin Carao @mikaelakristin.bsky.social Filipino-Australian. Passionate about books, film, food and music. Based in Melbourne, Australia.
@alvcaeiro.bsky.social @alvcaeiro.bsky.social 
@agpaw.bsky.social @agpaw.bsky.social 
Zera / Corey Jae 🏳️⚧️ @coreyjwhite.com she/her. author, voidwitch, cat lady.
read Killing Gravity and Repo Virtual. or don't, I'm not your mum.
Naarm, "Australia"
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@lisafaalafi.bsky.social @lisafaalafi.bsky.social Multidimensional Artist : Shouty Aunty : Pasifika Queen - Co-creator and Director of HOT BROWN HONEY : Global First Nations Women smashing the system! Helpmann 🏆 Sydney Theatre 🏆 Greenroom 🏆 #decolonise Co-Director Polytoxic : Feminist theatre disrupters
Newcastle Writers Festival @newwritersfest.bsky.social Join us for the 2027 festival from 2 to 4 April
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Kate Lister @k8lister.bsky.social Sex Historian. Writer. Presenter. Columnist. Host of (award winning) Betwixt the Sheets Podcast. FLICK: A History of Female Pleasure, Out Now https://linktr.ee/drkatelister
Mia Walsch @miawalsch.bsky.social Pseudonymous but not anonymous. Award-winning author, visual artist, middle-aged goth. My memoir 'Money For Something' came out in 2020.
allmylinks.com/miawalsch
Mark Humphries @markhumphries.bsky.social Tall and blonde. Good teeth. Will fetch a fine price at market.
Hannah Kent @hannahkent.bsky.social Writer. Burial Rites, The Good People, Devotion.
Katherine Lyall-Watson @katherinelw.bsky.social Writer, theatre maker, reader, co-artistic director of Belloo Creative, passionate about creating positive change. #theatre #writer
Elliott Bledsoe @elliottbledsoe.bsky.social I am the grumpy cat of arts marketing! 😼
ATM doing stuff w/ BlakDance + others.
President of @wmau.bsky.social and Co-lead of @creativecommonsau.bsky.social.
@elliottbledsoe on most things.
#ArtsMarketing #Copyright #Tech
On Turrbal/Jagera land.
He/him.
Isobelle Carmody @firecatz.bsky.social Writer, dreamer, wonderer and wanderer.
Allison Tait @allisontaitwriter.bsky.social Bestselling MG author (The Mapmaker Chronicles, The Ateban Cipher, Maven & Reeve Mysteries, The First Summer of Callie McGee) | Co-host of Your Kid’s Next Read #podcast | More at allisontait.com
Tom Doig @tomdoig.bsky.social e.g. Artist, dog lover and avid reader
James Findlay @jamesfindlay.com.au ABC broadcaster and writer. Views mine, not of my employer. 📚 'Great Sexpectations' out now.
Sophie Black @sophieblackwords.bsky.social Associate editor, features @ The Guardian. Formerly a superb fairy wren.
Melissa Goorie @melissagoorie.bsky.social Indigenous. Socialist. Pro-choice. 
Virginia Muzik @writenoise.bsky.social Writes memoir and features, published in The Guardian, Big Issue, Grieve anthology, SMH | music obsessive | sometime singer | spiritual seeker | dog mama | bird marveler. Strives for altruism and sufficiency. On unceded Gadigal land.
Manly Writers' Festival @manlywritersfest.bsky.social Stories Across Manly. A literary festival for readers, writers, and thinkers. March 18-21, 2027. Gayamagal & Garigal Land, Manly (Sydney).
www.manlywritersfestival.org.au
Antoinette Lattouf @antoinettelattouf.bsky.social Co-Founder Ette Media | Co-Host ‘We Used To Be Journos’ | TEDx Speaker | Author | Mental Health Ambassador | Charity CoFounder | Popular in WhatsApp Groups
www.ettemedia.com
Maria Garbutt-Lucero @mariagluc.bsky.social Freelance book PR • ESEA Lit Fest co-founder • Florence Welch's BetweenTwoBooks (she/her)
Gay Alcorn @gayalcorn.bsky.social Journalist at the Good Weekend. Former editor of The Age, Melbourne. 
Dee Madigan @deemadigan.bsky.social Creative Director of Campaign Edge. Campaigner. Author. Speaker. On Gruen, Sunrise and The Latest.
Sophie Beer @sophiebeerdraws.bsky.social Kids author and illustrator✨☀✨
Into books and equality. She/her
Debut MG 'Thunderhead' out now with A&U
Patricia Karvelas @patskarvelas.bsky.social Host #afternoonbriefing weekdays 4pm plus @abcnews TV #qanda 📺 #ThePartyRoom podcast and #PoliticsNow Previously @rndrive and @rnbreakfast & Posts don’t represent the ABC
Sommer Tothill @sommertothill.bsky.social Diversifying from Meta (65k followers across Insta & Threads). Find me on TikTok & YouTube too.
Patriarchy isn't going to smash itself
🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️Ally ✊🏻BLM, Free Palestine 🌏Brisbane
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Stuart Kells @stuartkells.bsky.social History of books, history of money. Enterprise Fellow, Melbourne Institute #UniMelb. Editor #LibraryPlanet. Author of Alice, The Library, Shakespeare’s Library, Penguin & the Lane Brothers
Donna Ward @donnadammit.bsky.social I read: books, signposts, over your shoulder, upside down, cereal boxes, words and minds. I love animals, all animals, (well, I’m not crazy about snakes.) I am sarcastic and I laugh like Kamala.
Michelle Cahill @michellecahill.bsky.social Writer, flaneur, Letter to Pessoa, Daisy & Woolf
Donna Ward writer @donnawardwriter.bsky.social Writer, editor, advocate for single people everywhere. You can find out about my writing life at donna-ward.com.au and about my advocacy work at singlehoodaustralia.org
Wendy Erskine @wednesdayerskin.bsky.social THE BENEFACTORS Sceptre. Waterstones Irish Book of the Year. Shortlisted Irish Novel of the Year, Best British Audio Book. It’s out now. dance move/sweet home/stinging fly/picador/well I just kind of like it/PVA Books
Martine Kropkowski @mkropkowski.bsky.social Writer
Ultimo Press
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shastra deo शास्त्रा देव @shastradeo.bsky.social not active on here bcause im trying to become a linkedin influencer
Toby Litt @tobylitt.bsky.social Writer. Mentor. Activist.
I teach Creative Writing at Southampton University.
https://awritersdiary.substack.com/
Claire Mabey @clairemabey.bsky.social Writer. Founder of Verb Wellington. Books editor at The Spinoff. Sylvia Townsend Warner fan. Mum. Author of The Raven’s Eye Runaways, an MG adventure (2024) 🍃Substack at clairemabey@substack.com | clairemabey.com
Amie Kaufman @amiekaufman.bsky.social 🌈 NYT and internationally bestselling author. (she/her)
📚 Out now: The Isles of the Gods
✍🏼 Newsletter: amiekaufman.substack.com
Trent Jamieson @trentonomicon.bsky.social He/him/his
Author of the novels Stone Road, Day Boy, the Death Works series, and the Roil Duology. Also the picture books The Giant and the Sea, and Mr Impoppable. Co-creator with Brent Wilson of the Frog, Log and Dave graphic novels (Bk1 out March 2025)
Margaret Simons @margaretsimons.bsky.social Freelance journalist and writer. Honorary Principal Fellow at the Centre for Advancing Journalism, University of Melbourne. More at www.margaretsimons.com.au
Marc Fennell @marcfennell.bsky.social Journalist 👑 Stuff The British Stole (ABC/CBC) 🧠 Mastermind (SBS) 🎨 Framed (SBS) 🏫 School That Tried To End Racism (ABC) 🥜 NutJobs 🌶 It Burns (Audible)
Robert Watkins @arrjaydub.bsky.social Publishing Director Ultimo Press. Radically soft book boy. Short King.
Guardian Australia @australia.theguardian.com ✍️ Contact and complaints: https://www.theguardian.com/info/2013/may/26/contact-guardian-australia?CMP=aus_bsky
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Angela Meyer @literaryminded.bsky.social Author: JOAN SMOKES, A SUPERIOR SPECTRE, MOON SUGAR ✨ writing & publishing lecturer ✨ former publisher & bookseller✨ bi ✨ https://linktr.ee/AngelaMeyer
Daniel Crute 🇵🇸 🇺🇦 @danielcrute.au trade unionist | greenie | columbophile | father
Often ignore and/or block anonymous accounts
danielcrute.au
Prof Sandy O’Sullivan (Wiradjuri, trans they/them) @sandyosullivan.bsky.social Aboriginal trans professor doing anti-colonial work across policy, universities, museums, art, gender, culture, supporting older queer lives @IndigFutures.
them/sib/kin
Rosanna Stevens @wordress.bsky.social Someone’s albatross, someone’s wild geese.
Multi-class creative build.
PhD in Creative and Cultural Practice
Writer🪡 researcher 🔮 musician 🧩 VAO 🐚 audiomaker 🫧
📍Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung Country
www.rosannastevens.com
Damon Young @damonyoung.com.au "Young has nailed it." - Publisher's Weekly
Philosopher & author. Agents: Zeitgeist Agency (nonfiction) & Alex Adsett Literary (fiction)
www.damonyoung.com.au
Alison Rogers @readersretreatps.bsky.social Owner of Readers Retreat - A book shop where people and words come together
Dr Mark | 北马克 |🍉🇦🇺🇲🇾🇹🇭 @ajaanmark.bsky.social From Australia, have also spent time in Malaysia and Thailand.
Sociologist, educator, flaneur, SFF appreciator
Starting a new Linguistics research project in intercultural pragmatics
Interested in Asia things and languages. Also: Buddhism.
He/Him
Emily Barrett @emilysky.bsky.social Managing editor at The Saturday Paper. Australian–American and vice versa. Admirer of well-constructed sentences.
Pip Adam @pipadam.bsky.social Audition :: Nothing to See :: The New Animals :: I'm Working on a Building :: Everything We Hoped For :: Better off Read :: she's no Hemmingway.
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
Richard Glover @richardglover1.bsky.social Australian writer and recovering radio host. Website: richardglover.com.au
Sam Sacks @ssacks.bsky.social Fiction critic at the Wall Street Journal (https://www.wsj.com/news/author/sam-sacks); editor at Open Letters Review, formerly Open Letters Monthly (https://openlettersreview.com/) sam_sacks [at] hotmail
Johannes Jakob @jojojakob.bsky.social commissioning editor at Penguin Random House Australia
Giramondo Publishing @giramondobooks.bsky.social 30 years in 2026 ✨ An independent Australian literary publisher of award-winning poetry, fiction & non-fiction, and the literary magazine HEAT. Subscriptions available.
@bookishbron.bsky.social @bookishbron.bsky.social Avid reader & AusLit lover
Coffee drinker, cat hugger
Visit bookishbron.com for book reviews & bookish chat
BBNYA @bbnya.bsky.social The Book Bloggers’ Novel of the Year Award
Www.BBNYA.com- H @hachetteus.bsky.social @hachetteus.bsky.social
David Whish-Wilson @davidwhish-wilson.bsky.social Fremantle-based crime writer and reader, reviewer, academic. Author of the Frank Swann and Lee Southern series. Latest is Cutler, out with Fremantle Press.
Michelle Prak - author 🇦🇺 @prakky.bsky.social Thriller writer. Thrills not 100% guaranteed, but gosh, I'd be surprised if you didn't get one.
Barren Cape, The Rush (Simon & Schuster ANZ); Le Deluge (HarperCollinsFrance); The Rush (Crooked Lane Books) michelleprak.com
The Conversation AUNZ @aunz.theconversation.com Independent news from the sharpest academic minds.
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ArtsHub @artshub.bsky.social Australia's largest and most trusted arts network. Providing the latest word on the arts sector.
Fiona Patten @fionapatten.bsky.social Member of Parliament in Victoria Australia 2014 - 2022.
Likes #auspol, swimming, secularism, wine, laughter, social justice and of course a bit of cannabis.
The Moth Magazine @themothmagazine.bsky.social International art & lit magazine. One of the world's biggest prizes for a poem. Short story, nature writing & art prizes. Also: @thecaterpillarmag
Suzy Freeman-Greene @suzyfg.bsky.social Books & Ideas editor The Conversation Australia. Writer, reader, critic, birdo
Sam Elk @samhellkin.bsky.social 🎙️🏳️⚧️📚🍉Author of Detachable Penis (Upswell) and co-host of Queer View Mirror (Triple R). Living on unceded Wurundjeri land. Samelkin.com
Aviva Tuffield @avivatuffield.bsky.social Publisher of fiction, nonfiction and poetry. Always on the lookout for talented new authors who are expanding the definition of Australian literature.
Champion of writing & reading.
Currently involved in #summerreadingformps & Read Palestine Week 2024.
Nick Miller @nickdmiller.bsky.social Now at The i Paper. Some settling of the content may occur during transit.
https://authory.com/NickMiller
Thuy On @thuyon.bsky.social Arts journalist, critic, editor, poet. Reviews and Literary Editor of ArtsHub. Two books of poetry published: Turbulence (2020) and Decadence (2022). The third, Essence, to be released Feb 2025. All published by UWAP.
Dr Helen Edwards, Psych PhD, Australian Author & Speaker @drhelenedwards.bsky.social Award-winning Australian Author on Kaurna Land.
🪶SA Literary Fellow 2025
✨️The Rebels of Mount Buffalo✨️Legend of The Lighthouse Moon✨️On Gallant Wings ✨️The Disappearing Circus 7/25 with Kate Gordon
🪶Nature, Magic & History
www.helenedwardswrites.com
lisa @lisadempster.bsky.social culture etc
Tricia Dearborn @triciadearborn.bsky.social Poet. Writer. Editor | New collection Goatscape out with Cordite Books in 2027! | Editor at http://triciadearborneditor.com
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.
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
Paddy O'Reilly @paddy-oreilly.bsky.social Writer and reader
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. 
Alex Adsett @alexadsett.bsky.social Australian literary agent, publishing consultant and avid reader. 
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/
Tania Chandler @taniachandler.bsky.social writer
also ice skating, photography
Whores of Yore @whoresofyore.bsky.social Sex History. "A Catalogue of Jilts, Cracks, Nightwalkers, Whores, She-Friends, Kind Women & Others of the Linen-Lifting Tribe”
Penguin Books @penguinbooksusa.bsky.social We publish fiction and nonfiction adorned with the famous dignified but flippant logo.
Sian Prior @sian-prior.bsky.social Author (‘Shy: a memoir’, ‘Childless: a story of freedom and longing’), journo, uni lecturer, singer, reader, campervanner, earth-lover 🌏 ❤️