Ciara Knight @ciara.bsky.social Comedy writer and performer. Patiently waiting for Mambo Number 6.
www.instagram.com/knightstagram
Diarmuid O'Brien @diarmuid.bsky.social TV writer in Ireland.
Dermot Carmody @dermotcarmody.bsky.social Expert generalist. Cofounder of The Comedy Cellar in Dublin. Comminications person in a large building. I have courgettes and watch cricket. Or vice versa.
Malcolm Dixon @malcolmdixon59.bsky.social Writer of short stories in The London Magazine, Aesthetica & elsewhere, and (as F.M.A Dixon) the prizewinning Everywhere Street YA novels.
Chapbooks: 'Death in the Cathedral' and 'Testament' out now.
Triple Pushcart Prize nominee. Bootle boy. Evertonian.
Per Ahlberg @perahlberg.bsky.social Palaeontologist at Uppsala University. Early vertebrate enthusiast. Moderately effective gardener. He/him. Views my own. Enemy of AI slop. The photo is me, not some random bloke. Background image from Ymer Island, north-East Greenland.🇸🇪🇺🇦🇨🇦🇬🇱🇪🇺🇬🇧
Skip Bolden 💙🎬🎞️ @skipbolden.bsky.social Film festival judge & consultant for filmmakers. Sharing my love of cinema. http://imdb.com/name/nm4862196/
#IndieFilm #Filmmaking #FilmFestivals
David Barnett @davidmbarnett.bsky.social Triple threat:
Journalism: www.authory.com/davidbarnett
Books: www.amazon.co.uk/stores/author/B0034PY7ZW
Comics: leagueofcomicgeeks.com/people/16810/david-barnett/comics
Agent: Laura Williams, Greene & Heaton greeneheaton.co.uk/clients/david-m-barnett
Carl Winberg @winberg.ie TV Editor/Engineer (ISE).
Ex BBC / Sony Pictures / Paramount
Law school drop-out.
http://winberg.ie/
https://www.youtube.com/@UKTVCommercials
I have one of those bot things: @classicfilms.app
And a game: https://classicfilms.app/
Andy Lewis @andylewis.bsky.social Music producer, bass player, DJ. Soho Radio presenter. Weller band alumnus. Helped invent Britpop. 
Marc Chamberlain @marcchamberlain.bsky.social Poets | Anniversaries | Poems
www.marcchamberlain.net
Kate Louise Powell @katelouisepowell.bsky.social freelance illustrator currently based in Glasgow ✍🏻 anti-speciesist, anti-fascist, anti-hunt 🦊🇵🇸
shop my work: https://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/KateLouisePowell
Brian Bilston @brianbilston.bsky.social I write poems.
Shows: https://brianbilston.com/events/
Books: https://brianbilston.com/books/
Frazzled Lit *Closed for Submissions* @frazzledlit.bsky.social We are Frazzled Lit! 🥓 🔥
Looking for Flash, Poetry, CNF and Prose.
Eds @lozzawriting.bsky.social and @jmcm.bsky.social
www.frazzledlit.com
https://ko-fi.com/frazzledlit
socials by Laura
🇬🇧🏴🇮🇪 Edinburgh/Dublin
Daryl Feehely @darylfeehely.com Photographer 📸, Web Developer 💻
Corkonian in Liverpool 🔴⚪
Ranter on Irish Politics 🙃
Obsessed with Smart Thinking Books 📚
Hopeful for Climate Action Now 🌍
Into New/Experimental Music 🎶
Tá Gaeilge agam 🇮🇪
darylfeehely.com
Delia @deliaisnthappy.bsky.social A female journalist in all but sex
Utopian Scholastic historian.
Very Marmite
Raconteur of things.
Paul Duane 🥔 @paulduane.bsky.social A very Irish filmmaker.
All You Need is Death streaming now, see linktree.
“A folk horror masterpiece” (Daily Beast)
He/him, anarchist, artist. Avatar painted by Sol Robinson.
https://linktr.ee/paulduane
Sarah Pettegree @sarahpettegree.bsky.social They said I’d like it here.
Recovering twitter person.
Made pork pies for nigh on a couple of decades. Rarely leaves North Norfolk. Loves the wild things.
PD Smith @pdsmith.bsky.social 📚City: A Guidebook for the Urban Age, Doomsday Men, Einstein, Metaphor & Materiality.
Now writing about cities, detectives and crime.
https://linktr.ee/pd_smith
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
Thomas Ruys Smith @thomasruyssmith.com Prof of Lit and Culture, mostly nineteenth century. Coming soon: 🎅 🔎 Searching for Santa Claus: An Anthology of the Poems, Stories and Illustrations That Shaped an American Icon. Writing a book about Mark Twain & London.
http://www.thomasruyssmith.com
Rob H&ynes @robonabike.eurosky.social We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stats.
Oxford, UK
Harehunterfield @harehunterfield.bsky.social Lover of the North Wind. Former DJ at WZBC. Interests in all things
More to follow 
Mark O’Neill 🐻 @radiobeartime.com Ursine Plenipotentiary. Defrocked astrophysicist. Aire échta for hire.
Official sponsor of the 🐻 emoji
“O fish, are you constant to the old covenant?”
Was @marxculture on Twitter
AGordon @annetteg.bsky.social That London bus found its way through the fog.
TV producer/director & novelist, historical fiction.
Lucy Cavendish Fiction Prize shortlisted 2014 & Longlisted 2020,
Mslexia Novel Award 2019 Longlisted,
Comedy Women in Print shortlisted 2020. 
Jo Shaw @bookmadjo.bsky.social Mancunian book blogger. I read rom, lit fic, historical + thrillers. #books #f1 #swfc #BookSky #Packers She/her, Cis, Ally 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️ INFJ
Erin Maher @theerinmaher.bsky.social TV writer (SWAMP THING! SHINING VALE!) Friend to books, horses, and old movies. I am pro-Oxford comma.
Sadie Maskery @saccharinequeen.bsky.social Functions adequately.
Short story collection, 'Overboard', published by Acid Bath Publishing.
May contain smut.
Lorna Gibb @drlornagibb.bsky.social Writer, Fiction & Non-fiction. Associate Professor Stirling. Rep'd by Peter Straus at RCW. New book 2025 Rare Tongues - Secret Stories of Hidden Languages (Atlantic & Princeton). Also a novelist. Once a dancer, medievalist, phonologist..
Bob Eaglestone @bobeaglestone.bsky.social Professor of Contemporary Literature and Thought at Royal Holloway, University of London. Writing a book about Arendt and another about literature and politics in the UK.
Chthönic Smïth @chthonicsmith.bsky.social The peveril of rock 'n' roll decadence
#MDANT🏅
Bryn Hammond @brynhammond.bsky.social | Writer. Sword & Sorcery: Goatskin novellas WASTE FLOWERS, WHAT ROUGH BEAST? from Brackenbury Books. Historical fiction: AMGALANT on Tchingis Khan & 12thC Mongols
| She/her 🌈Queer. Australia
| https://amgalant.com / buy direct https://payhip.com/Amgalant
Mathew Lyons @mathewlyons.bsky.social Writer, historian. FRHistS. Recent work: History Today, The Spectator, Slightly Foxed, New Humanist, Engelsberg Ideas.
Francesca Main @francescamain.bsky.social Reader, editor, publisher of Phoenix, an imprint of Orion. 
Rob Morgan @durutti74.bsky.social GBS veteran. Sometimes I make music. Sometimes I write about music. Getting better slowly.
Shelley Harris @shelleyharris.bsky.social Writer (JUBILEE and VIGILANTE, W&N), Creative Writing lecturer at the University of Reading. Dogs, food and various forms of anguish.
James Cooray Smith @ Psychic Paper / Midday Matinées @cooraysmith.bsky.social Freelance Writer. Highgate Dad. Kinda Desi. Doesn’t post / read. So I won’t see anything you say here. I’m not ignoring you. Am probably on the school run. Automated posts from my Dr Who & film crit emailers only.
Letterboxd - https://boxd.it/buxo1
Julian Loose @loosestish.bsky.social Editorial Director for Trade and Academic at Yale University Press London 
Tracey Thorn @traceythorn.bsky.social Singer, songwriter, writer
David Lance Callahan @davidlancecallahan.bsky.social English Primitive reinventor, Moonshake/Wolfhounds ranter, Swell Maps supply guitarist, nature writer. #MDANT
https://davidcallahan.bandcamp.com/album/down-to-the-marshes
Helen Zaltzman @helenzaltzman.bsky.social Podcaster from The Allusionist, Answer Me This and Veronica Mars Investigations. Pronouns she/they (TBH I think 'they' should be the default and we opt in to gendered pronouns/gender). linktr.ee/helenzaltzman
Hey Kids Rock'n'Roll @heykidsshop.bsky.social Home grown & hand sewn, folk-pop art. A happy idiot, struggling for the legal tender.
Shop: heykidsrocknroll.etsy.com
David Hering @davidhering.bsky.social No blind spots in the leopard’s eyes
Jenny Lord @jennylord.bsky.social Publisher &c.
Alison Barrow @alisonbarrow.bsky.social Book cheerleader, Bookshop fan, Reader. Often on book tour. UK publishing PR and events 📚 Penguin Random House 🐧
Chris Chibnall @chrischibnall.bsky.social Novelist, screenwriter, showrunner, playwright
Sunday Times Bestseller, Death at the White Hart, OUT NOW
The Parkwood Murders: pre-order now for 16 July
Agatha Christie’s Seven Dials now on Netflix
Chitra Ramaswamy @chitgrrl.bsky.social Author: Homelands, Expecting. Journalist: The Guardian. Restaurant critic: The Times Scotland. Used to be a person whose profile said only 'don't conclude anything without cheese'. Still am, on the inside.
Pete Brown @petebrownbeer.bsky.social Writer, speaker, consultant, mainly on beer, pubs, food, drink, social history.
http://petebrown.net
http://patreon.com/petebrownbeer
Agent Jim Gill at Felicity Bryan Associates.
Robert Shearman @robertshearman.bsky.social Writer of stuff, often quite odd. (Both me and the stuff.) Owned by a cat.
Martin Fitzgerald @4hundredblows.bsky.social My new book - The Umbrella Man and Other Stories - is out now. A Radio Four pick of the week.
Order details and live events - https://linktr.ee/4hundredblows
Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social Associate editor and columnist @financialtimes.com. Post too often about culture, public policy, management, politics, nerd stuff, Arsenal the champions, wosoc. Wow! (center) Try my UK politics newsletter for free here: www.ft.com/tryinsidepolitics
Shaun Whiteside @shaunwhiteside.bsky.social Family translation (DE, FR, IT, NL) cooking travel cats books films and stuff. From Dungannon.
Ian Greaves @greavesian.bsky.social Writer, researcher, editor, failed model. N17. Penda's Fen: Scene By Scene out now: https://tenacrefilms.bigcartel.com/product/pendas-fen-scene-by-scene
Bluemoose Books @ofmooseandmen.bsky.social Indy publisher of award winning literary fiction
You can order books here : www.bluemoosebooks.com 
Jonathan Calder @lordbonkers.bsky.social Blogger at Liberal England. Expect Dickens, politics, Steve Winwood, canals, British films, Richard Jefferies, Shropshire, Englishness, chess, social history, Malcolm Saville, philosophy, Leicestershire and Rutland, comedy, railways... That sort of thing.
Caroline Collett Writer @collettwriter.bsky.social tyke, punk, writer, reader, watcher
www.carolinecollettwriter.com
https://www.instagram.com/caroline_r_collett/
Irene @derbren.bsky.social books, bikes, cats, cheese, and cinemas. Non-practising German. Unreliable narrator, ready for my close-up. Probably have a crush on you. For more, go here: https://linktr.ee/DerBren
Nev Fountain @nevfountain.bsky.social Writer of satire (Private Eye/Dead Ringers) and Murder. New book ‘Lies and Dolls’ is out now in all good bookshops. 'The Fan Who Knew Too Much' is also there, probably nearby. Graphic novel ‘The Furnace’ out eventually.
Christopher Hilton @chilton-bb.bsky.social Head of Archive & Library at The Red House, http://brittenpearsarts.org. Archives, music, metadata; side orders of architecture, landscape history & electronic noise.
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
www.anakanaschofield.com
Wylie
Hoops
Eamonn Sweeney @sweeneyagonistes.bsky.social Author. The Last Ditch, paperback coming out in May.
Freelance writer. Lapsed novelist. Cinephile. Substack coming soon.
Interesting writing gigs in the politics or arts line gratefully considered.
Dominic Dean @drdominicdean.bsky.social Researcher, teacher and author (Killing Children in British Fiction - SUNY Press, 2024).
I work on contemporary British fiction and film, children, Kazuo Ishiguro, migration, intergenerational conflict. All views my own.
Moose @moose23.bsky.social Work: www.moosetwentythree.com
Music with: Wild Rocket//Creepy Future//BB84//Black Coral//The Mountain of Light
Irish Film Institute @irishfilminstitute.bsky.social The Home of Film in Ireland.
A historic 3-screen cinema in the heart of Temple Bar, with Ireland's only 70mm projector 🎞
Visit http://ifi.ie + watch online via http://ifiarchiveplayer.ie and https://www.ifihome.ie
Charity Number: 20021429
The Four Faced Liar @the4facedliar.bsky.social The Four Faced Liar is an Irish literary journal that publishes fiction, poetry, creative non fiction, art, photography and work in translation from all over the world.
Aisling Walsh @aislingwalsh.bsky.social Writer & Researcher
Sociology post-doc at University of Galway
Fiction Reader at Anomaly Litmag
I write about movies and neurodivergence at: https://autcasts.substack.com
Proud #NeuroQueer (She/Her)
Frank Cottrell-Boyce @frankcottrellboyce.bsky.social Waterstone's UK Children's Laureate
Ideas lead to idols. Only wonder leads to truth.
Swinging a hammock on the Island of Brilliant podcast
https://islandofbrilliant.podbean.com/
David Collard @davidcollard.bsky.social Autheur. Unfluencer.
'The Beckett List' (2027)
'A Crumpled Swan' (2025)
'Multiple Joyce' (2022)
All published by www.saggingmeniscus.com
(No DMs)
The Journal @thejournal.ie Providing open access to valuable journalism | Support our work so we can keep questioning, debunking, explaining and informing http://thejournal.ie/contribute
christhebarker @christhebarker.bsky.social Professional art director/illustrator/comedy photoshopper. I sometimes feed the sparrows too.
Graeme Swanson @swansonian.bsky.social Scottish drawerer and photographerer
“The funniest man in this lift” - the other man in the lift
Marswasrubbish.com
https://marswasrubbish.etsy.com
Matt Leys @mattleys.bsky.social Scriptwritist
Victoria Redfern @victoriaredfern.bsky.social Current location: St. Leonards-on-Sea, England
Made in Scotland from girders.
Any pronouns. Gender is a spectrum.
Blocklists are for Nazis.
https://toriaredfern.wordpress.com
(photo: me & Foz Foster @ the 100 Club by Isabelle Adam)
🅡🅞🅑 🅜🅔🅢🅤🅡🅔 @robmesure.bsky.social Assessment type. Films, records, books, That Sort Of Thing. Wielder of guitars. Will write for Scampi Fries, or cash.
I’m not like this because I’m in Van Halen, I’m in Van Halen because I’m like this.
Letterboxd: https://boxd.it/jKip
Croydonite.
Matthew Stewart @roguestrands.bsky.social Weaving ways through poetry. Second full collection, ‘Whatever You Do, Just Don’t’, a Poetry Society Book of the Year 2023, available from HappenStance Press.
Bowiesongs (C. O'Leary) @bowiesongs.bsky.social Books (Rebel Rebel; Ashes to Ashes), blogs (64 Quartets; Pushing Ahead of the Dame; Locust St.)
Ian McMillan @imcmillan.bsky.social I was a New Face of 1984 in Harper’s and Queen magazine
Chris Steller @chrissteller.bsky.social MINNEAPOLIS. ALSO: SAINT PAUL. This is the ideal BlueSky bio. You should copy it. ALT: Circle is hot dog man putting ketchup on himself. Banner is me as Jimmy Carter. /j /hj /s
Rachel Loden @rloden.bsky.social Poet. Private scholar. (HOTEL IMPERIUM, DICK OF THE DEAD.) Forthcoming in UNSUNG MASTERS (Wesleyan). Journal of the Plague Years, New American Writing, Paris Review &c. Profile image from Ana Teresa Fernández
John Grindrod @grindrod.bsky.social Social historian of modern places. Tales of the Suburbs, on LGBTQ+ history, out now. Wrote Concretopia and Outskirts. Disappointingly unserious. Podcast: Monstrosities Mon Amour
Find out more: https://linktr.ee/johngrindrod
Donna Rees @donnarees.bsky.social Sometime actor, full time autism Mummy, lover of theatre, film. music and comedy.
Neil Norman And His Cosmic Orchestra @fubsyshabaroon.bsky.social Wit, raconteur, bon viveur. He is none of these things. A purveyor of cheap mummery and piffle since 1976. Throws random words at a screen for Set The Tape. Bluesky’s foremost Biggles: Adventures In Time aficionado.
Philippe Auclair @philippeauclair.bsky.social Writes and sings for Josimar, The Guardian and Tapete Records
Nitish Pahwa @nitishpahwa.com staff writer for business/tech @slate.com and Council Member for Online Media @wgaeast.bsky.social. words also in NYT, LARB, Brooklyn Magazine, Complex, and POW Mag. he/him. nitishpahwa.73 on Signal. if it's major, hit me on my pager.
inthefade @ihavethatonvinyl.com it's baseball season
michele., short story writer, inthefade from twitter, probably high
long island forever #isles
free palestine, protect trans kids, she/her
i am probably to the left of you
http://ihavethatonvinyl.com
Christopher Y @yates.bsky.social corrupt Renaissance courtier and lecturer at Brown University; molochofficial on some other unnameable site
Gail Myerscough @gailmyerscough.co.uk Surface pattern designer and illustrator. Bold, colourful things inspired by brutalist architecture, mid-century graphics and music. Based in Manchester.
https://www.gailmyerscough.co.uk
Alison Eales, Nerves of Steel @alisoneales.com Thames in the streets, LWT in the sheets
she/her
alisoneales.com
Penny Kiley @pennykiley.bsky.social Oxford-based writer and editor. Former music journo. Autistic. Memoir 'Atypical Girl' published by Polygon. https://linktr.ee/pennykiley
Matt Owen @mjowen174.bsky.social Writerer of things, Leg Spinner, Tool. "He's a relentless gag machine" - Al Murray.
Patricia Q. Bidar @patriciaqbidar.bsky.social Author: Pardon Me for Moonwalking (Unsolicited Press), Wild Plums (ELJ).
Contributor: Flash Fiction America (Norton)
Wigleaf 50 2024, 2025; Best Small Fictions '23, '24; Best Microfiction '23
The old man and the THC @scrtolstnr.bsky.social Often so stoned i'm amusing myself impersonating a lizard in the mirror
Martina Dalton @martinadalton.bsky.social Poet | First collection, ‘Midnight at the Saltmarsh’, published by The Gallery Press, May 2026
Darren Mooney @darrenmooney.bsky.social As seen/read/heard at: Second Wind | The 250 | Irish Independent | NewsTalk | Q102 | Polygon | The Escapist. He/Him.
Aoife Martin @lockdownbookclub.bsky.social You know, from the other place.
Samhain’d Lad @keelanhothothot.bsky.social Screenwriter. Múinteoir. FilminDublin contributor. Let us celebrate our new arrangement with the adding of chocolate to milk.
Bruce Gorrie @bsrg1.bsky.social Slip inside this house don't pass it by
Pet O'Connell @petoconnell.bsky.social Iriseoir leis an Irish Examiner. Worcester woman.
Mary O'Connell @mary1010.bsky.social Lecturer in English at UCC, teaching Nineteenth-Century Literature and Crime Fiction. Mama to Dylan. Arsenal fan.
Maureen Millar @maureenmillar.bsky.social Ordinary and mediocre.
Isle of Wight
Hannah Murphy @hannahmurphynews.bsky.social Any news? 👋🏼
Reporter with Virgin Media News