flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social Annoying smartarse
Andrew Oldham @bongosherbert.bsky.social Writer, Blogger, PhD Researcher & Environmentalist. Published in The Guardian, Mechanics Institute Review online & narrator of films for Channel 4 #writer
James Topham @jamestopham.bsky.social Screenwriter: @RidleyScottCG, @GaumontTV #BAFTA / @RocliffeForum Winner.
https://james-topham.com
Eleanor (Elle) Tucker @eleanortucker.bsky.social Author | Screenwriter | Journo | Speaker
Turn Back Time (Bookseller pick for April) out now (Hera/Canelo)
Rep’d by Emily MacDonald @ 42
Penelopebabs @penelopebabs.bsky.social Work in geoscience. Studying for my master's in international relations and global communications at Manchester Met. Interested in feminist expression in horror films, cats, travel and food.
Dr A. T. Hartley @athartley.bsky.social Research interests: gender performance in speculative and gothic fiction/ folk horror.
Working in academic publishing. Finding the South East flatter than preferred.
She/Her
Fly on the Wall Press @flyonthewallpress.bsky.social Manc independent publisher with a conscience.
M.D. Isabelle Kenyon
2024 North England Winner Small Press of Year!
Sustainable, political and accessible
www.flyonthewallpress.co.uk
Helen Tookey @helentookey.bsky.social Poet. Writer. Based in Liverpool, UK. Published by Carcanet Press, Longbarrow Press and Liverpool University Press.
Jennifer Williams @jenwilliamsft.bsky.social Northern correspondent, Financial Times
Experimental cook, purveyor of Andy Burnham content
“Cynical” - Boris Johnson
📍Manchester
Glen James Brown @glenjamesbrown.bsky.social Writer. New novel 💚 MOTHER NAKED 💚 out now! Also IRONOPOLIS (shortlisted for the Orwell Prize & Portico Prize & Winner Prix Millepages).
Beth Underdown @bethunderdown.bsky.social Novelist with Penguin Viking, creative writing teacher with the University of Manchester and Faber Academy. Hiking, gardening, crochet, coeliac disease: old-person stuff.
Caroline Lambe @caramalines.bsky.social Freelance publicist.
Former Head of M&P at Watkins Media (Angry Robot, Datura, Watkins, Nourish, Repeater)
c.c. o'hanlon @ccohanlon.bsky.social vagabond. ne'er-do-well. diarist. wreck.
Un de ces féroces infirmes retour des pays chauds.
"So here is us, on the raggedy edge..."
(from the film 'Serenity', 2005)
Shelly Dennison @dennisonshelly.bsky.social I help not-for-profits write things. I also write other stuff.
https://shellydennison.co.uk/
Gareth Spark @garethspark.bsky.social Writer from Whitby, Yorkshire.
Loves folk horror, folklore, VHS 📼 and telling stories.
Author of The Dark Earth of Albion, among others.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/stores/Gareth-Spark
Christopher Brown @christopherbrown.bsky.social Writer & lawyer. Author of A NATURAL HISTORY OF EMPTY LOTS • Novels TROPIC OF KANSAS et al • urban nature newsletter FIELD NOTES • christopherbrown.com
Isabel Serval @traversingfutures.bsky.social Futures nerd. Brand and foresight strategist. Storyteller.
https://traversingfutures.co.uk/
Paul Graham Raven @paulgrahamraven.com Science fiction writer turned tech critic turned STS/critical futures academic turned consulting critical foresight practitioner and worldbuilder-for-hire.
This account is POSSE broadcast only. Email if you want to reach me.
Roger Luckhurst @theprofrog.bsky.social academic/freelance writer, on Gothic, Horror film, Science Fiction. Latest: Graveyards: A History of Living with the Dead (2025). Next 2 books: a taxonomy of the undead and a biography of H P Lovecraft
Steve Aylett 📚 @steveaylett.bsky.social Writer of LINT, The Book Lovers, Slaughtermatic etc, and Hyperthick comic. Weird/SF/slipstream/satire. Neurospicy, tall, in Scotland. 🪐📚 www.steveaylett.com
Sarah Elliott @sarahelliottwriter.bsky.social ✍🏾Wordwitch extraordinaire
✨Enchanting the mind, one word at a time
🪄Conjuring supernatural stories, blogs, articles and more.
Talk to me about Buffy, Tarot or cats! 😀
Team Spike. Team Damon. Team Jacob.
Adam Farrer @adamjfarrer.bsky.social Essayist, Editor @ The Real Story, Winner NorthBound Book Award for COLD FISH SOUP (Saraband, 2022). BROKEN BISCUITS (HarperNorth, 2025) MD ANT Rep'd by @charlotteseymour.bsky.social
https://linktr.ee/adamjfarrer
Five Leaves Bookshop @fiveleavesbooks.bsky.social Nottingham's city centre independent and radical bookshop, est. 2013
Publishing as Five Leaves since 1995
www.fiveleavesbookshop.co.uk, www.fiveleaves.co.uk
We organise about a hundred events a year. Fast ordering service. Four book clubs.
Paul Tremblay @paultremblay.bsky.social Writer person. Dead but Dreaming of Electric Sheep, Horror Movie, Another, A Head Full of Ghosts, The Cabin at the End of the World, The Pallbearers Club. F*ck AI
Catriona Ward @catrionaward.bsky.social USA Today bestselling author of LOOKING GLASS SOUND 🪞💀🪞, THE LAST HOUSE ON NEEDLESS STREET, SUNDIAL & more Rep @jennysavill1 & @RStrausAgency Film/TV @mldean_& @unitedtalent
Priya Sharma @priya101.bsky.social 
Megan Taylor @meganjstaylor.bsky.social Author of dark novels and short stories
SJ Bradley @bradleybooks.bsky.social Short story writer, novelist, audio playwright. Maps of Imaginary Towns,The Netflix Reviewer (Substack), Uneasy Listening (podcast). PGcert Teaching Creative Writing (Cambridge), K Blundell Trust Award.
linktr.ee/bradleybooks From Wakefield, now NI
Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social Cartoonist and Illustrator. My book of science cartoons, PHYSICS FOR CATS, is available now! www.tomgauld.com
Matt Greene @arealmattgreene.bsky.social Van Occupanther Party Liaison. New novel, THE DEFINITIONS, coming 2025 with Dead Ink / Henry Holt
https://linktr.ee/arealmattgreene
Ania Card @aniacard.bsky.social Polish British 🏴🇪🇺| ABOVE US THE SEA out w/ @deadinkbooks in 2024 🏳️🌈| Rep. Clare Coombes @LiverpoolLit | let’s end factory farming @ciwf @otwarteklatki
James Brogden @jamesbrogden.bsky.social Writer (Titan, Black Library, PS Publishing and various other ne'er-do-wells), recovering ex-teacher, and Lego addict. Repped by Ian Drury Associates and owned by three cats.
JD Waterhouse @jdwaterhouse.bsky.social Upcoming UK based Screenwriter | ADORE TV 📺 and Audio Drama 🔉 | Formally Writing MA 🎭 @ University of Warwick | Trying to watch everything ever made before the world ends 🌍😭 Secretly reality TV obsessed 👀
@samging.bsky.social @samging.bsky.social 
Dead Ink Books @deadinkbooks.bsky.social Independent publisher of bold new fiction and non-fiction, based in Liverpool
https://linktr.ee/deadinkbooks
Kathryn Aldridge-Morris @kazbarwrites.bsky.social COLD TOAST Dahlia Books. Republic of Consciousness Prize 'Book of the Month'. Shortlisted for International Rubery Book Award. Wigleaf Top 50, Bath Flash Fiction Award, Mancs. Writing School QMD Prize, The Forge CNF prize
www.kamwords.com
Diva Rodriguez @divarodriguez.bsky.social Film & TV Producer.
Matthew Fox @mattfoxwriter.bsky.social THE LOVELY DARK is nominated for the Kirkus Prize 2026 | Kirkus ★ | Financial Times Best Children's Books '23 | Barnes & Noble Children's Book Award Shortlist '24 | No AI |🌱
linktr.ee/mattfoxwriter
mybookishblogspot @mybookishblogspot.bsky.social Hi, I’m Amanda a book mad ex-librarian working in a GP practice.
I’m a bookblogger reviewing on my blog, Instagram and X.
My blog: mybookishblogspot.wordpress.com
Instagram: @mybookishblogspot
X: https://x.com/amandaduncan12?s=21
Will Truefitt @willtruefitt.bsky.social Edinburgh-based script idioter/ vowel flattener
2022 Brit List / 2021 4Screenwriting,
Rep’d by Katie Battcock
@ Curtis Brown
All opinions my own stupid ones.
Sarah Emma @seasidesarahemma.bsky.social School librarian, book obsessive (seriously, it's a problem), writer wannabe, cat mum, reluctant gardener, seaside dweller
Winter Writes @loufin.bsky.social Writer, mum, Manc. Posts in bursts when not exhausted. Manchester Fiction Prize finalist (ages ago) Stories with Fly on the Wall Press (currently) Working on novel (forever)
Mezza @gleena.bsky.social Writer ✍️ lawyer ⚖️ trans inclusive feminist 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈 history nerd 📚 Tha beagan Gàidhlig agamsa, Dh'ionnsaich mi Gàidhlig aig Sabh Mòr Ostaig. Director of Safe Gigs for Women.
tomofnz @tomofnz.bsky.social ғɪɴɪᴛᴇ sᴛᴀᴛᴇ ᴍᴀᴄʜɪɴᴇ
Aʀᴛ - Bᴏᴏᴋꜱ - Dᴇꜱɪɢɴ - Uɴʀᴇᴀʟ
https://tomofnz.wixsite.com/tomofnz
Rue Baldry @ruebaldry.bsky.social Author of Dwell (Northodox Press June ‘26) & Nice Things (Fly On The Wall Dec ‘26).
Winner of The First Novel Prize and Commonwealth Prize Region. 30 published stories. 2nd in Yeovil Prize. Discoveries longlist. Moniack Mhor & Arvon mentee. She/her
Sebastian Boppert @sboppert.bsky.social German in Ireland. Professional languager for Eventbrite. Here for troll-free, good faith discussions🤞🏼 around tech, food, games, politics, history, and exercise.
Mon Dickson @mondickson.bsky.social Writer. Dentist try-hard. Cornflakes uptight. She/her.
#FlashFiction & #ShortStories at Temple in a City | Anti Heroin Chic | Splonk | jmww | X-RAY + more. Best small fictions nominee 2026. NSSF Academy graduate. https://writingandthelike.wordpress.com/
Stockport Noir @stockportnoir.bsky.social Crime fiction festival in the North West. Saturday 31st January 2026 at Stockport Masonic Guildhall
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
Andrea Mann @andreamann.bsky.social Screenwriter / Mentor / Landlocked yacht-rock lover. She/her. www.andreamann.com
Harriet Warnock 🇵🇸🇸🇩🏳️⚧️ @harrietwarnock.bsky.social Theatre//feminist//socialist//activism// #BlackLivesMatter #FreePalestine #Sudan #TransLivesMatter Freelance Theatre Producer. She/Her, Cisgender. Liverpool
Caleb Ranson @calebransonwriter.bsky.social Writer / Showrunner / Producer. TV & film. Created/written Night & Day, Around The World In 80 Days, Ordinary Joe, Bring Back Alice and lots of other stuff you might not have heard of 😊
theagency.co.uk/the-clients/caleb-ranson/
michelle @mickeypip.bsky.social ✏️ Writer, Artist, Narrative Designer (scripts, stories, games and other stuff)
👻 Lover of all things weird
📺 Channel 4 New Writers 24/25
📚 Trustee Manchester City of Literature
🎬 BAFTA Connect
✍️ WIP: spec fic collection
🔗 https://linktr.ee/mickeypip
Natalie Mirosch @noomirosch.bsky.social The Network alum | Channel 4 Writing for Television Award winner | Former forensic anthropologist | utter calamity
📍 South Yorkshire
📸 https://www.instagram.com/noomirosch94
Simon Craven @simoncraven.bsky.social Writer/ editor/ photographer/ filmmaker
Producer and general behind-scenes at https://www.youtube.com/@CatherineWarr/videos
Currently no access to DMs on here
Catherine Warr @cathwarr.bsky.social Historian, filmmaker, author. Leeds.
https://youtube.com/@CatherineWarr
Terri Jade Donovan @terrijadedonovan.bsky.social Disabled, Hard of Hearing and Neurodivergent Actor and Writer - Fantastic at Falling over and playing it straight
Karen Powell @karenpowellwrites.bsky.social FIFTEEN WILD DECEMBERS shortlisted Nero Book Awards 2023; a best historical fiction book of 2023 (The Times); THE RIVER WITHIN (2020) Northern Writers' Award; @EuropaEdUK; https://linktr.ee/karenpowellwrites
Tasha Qureshi @tashqx.bsky.social Scifi, Fantasy, and Horror Editor at The Novelry! Previously @ Hodderscape/Titan Books/Bloomsbury
Emily Devane @devaneemily.bsky.social Writer, teacher, editor, bookseller. Collector of oddities.
Words in various places, including Smokelong, Lost Balloon, Ellipsis, Best Microfiction & Ambit.
Max Edwards @onechaptermore.bsky.social Books & Football, mostly. Literary Agent - Apple Tree Literary. Bookseller Rising Star ⭐️ 2021. Email me - max.edwards@appletreeliterary.com
Solaris Books @solarisbooks.bsky.social Award-winning powerhouse publisher of SF 🚀 Fantasy 🧜♂️ Spec Fic ✨, and Horror 🧟 Part of Profile Books 📚 https://linktr.ee/solarisbooks
Luna Press Publishing @lunapress.bsky.social Award Winning Small Press. SFF in Fiction and Academia. Est. 2015. Member of Publishing Scotland. https://www.lunapresspublishing.com
John J Johnston @johnjjohnston.bsky.social Egyptology, Classics, reception, and cultural history.
Chair - gentlefuries.bsky.social
Ambassador - issegyptomania.bsky.social
BSFA Award finalist 2013
Agents:
Max Edwards - @AppleTreeLit
Nigel Hetherington - @Pastpreservers
London & Glasgow
Calque Press @calquepress.bsky.social A small & occasional press of pamphlets, short-length books and anthologies. We work at the intersection between languages, ideas, crafts, genres. Pre-order: RAGGED BAND OF TRAVELLERS. (ed Jon Stone)
https://linktr.ee/calquepress
Paul Hearn @paulxhearn.eurosky.social collagist & bricoleur 🗡️ rudimentary bookworks 🏺 flimsy pages 🔮 cruddy archives ⚖️ papery
https://paulhearn.neocities.org/
Abi Hynes @afahynes.bsky.social Drama and fiction writer. GANGS OF LONDON S4. MONSTROUS LONGING out with Dahlia Books.
Agents: Independent Talent / The Ampersand Agency
Brit List 2022 / BAFTA Connect member
https://linktr.ee/abifahynes
Influx Press @influxpress.bsky.social Award-winning independent publisher.
PARADISE by Ben Tufnell OUT NOW
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Contact: hello@influxpress.com
Sam Burns @samrandomnumber.bsky.social Playwright (Not the Worst Place, Paines Plough/Theatr Clwyd/Sherman Cymru 2014, Floor 13, Radio 4 afternoon drama, 2017). Kitchen assistant by day.
Serenity Booksellers @serenitybookshop.bsky.social Independent Bookshop in Romiley, Greater Manchester. Second bookshop in Stockport Centre now open! Co-founder Stockport Noir. Admin: @oziasmidwinter.bsky.social
Blackwell's Manchester @blackwellsmcr.bsky.social Your friendly neighbourhood bookshop on Oxford Road, Manchester 📚 Bookchat, events and silly things. Bleets (?!) by @rednewsom.bsky.social
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/blackwells-manchester-11315868456
Janet Bentley @jbbute.bsky.social Loving Scotland, art, music, gardening, reading
Jim Gibson @jimmmmmbo.bsky.social Author of The Bygones (Tangerine Press)
Best British Short Stories 2023 (SALT)
Nightjar Press, The Quietus, 3am Magazine
Co-founder of Hand Job Zine and Hi Vis Press
Rural working class literature
✌
https://jimgibsonauthor.com/home
Scott M. Fulton, III @net1.news Master of technology content for global publishers for 41 years.
Professional content strategy architect and content publishing advisor.
https://scottfultononpoint.com
Tom Abba @tomabba.studio Professor of Narrative Technologies and Pervasive Media Studio Resident.
Artist, writer and publisher. Opinions are all my own. Usually making something.
The Third Chapter @kevinjball.bsky.social I’m a mature student of English Literature exploring language, ideas, and what the Humanities can teach us about leading people today. Expect essays, creative writing, and reflections from a career in leadership.
Dannnnn @amisma.bsky.social He/Him. Videogame journalist of 14 years | Three-time bestselling children’s author | Film fanatic | Hiphop head | Always got my nose in a book | Total Weeb | Mental health advocate
Dan Howarth @danhowarth20.bsky.social British Fantasy Award Nominated Horror Author
Author of Last Night of Freedom, Territory, & Dark Missives.
Proud part of Motives Unknown: New Northern Crime from Dead Ink Books.
www.danhowarthwriter.com
https://linktr.ee/danhowarth
Stef L/Literary Elf @literaryelf.bsky.social #BookReviewer, prize entry reader Cheshire Novel Prize, lover of #BookChat, #BookTwitter and now #BookSky! 'We are all stardust & stories '💗 📚
Andrew Tucker Leavis @andrewtuckerleavis.bsky.social EIC + founder - New Nottingham Journal
Words in Radio Times, Under the Radar, Nottingham Post
Ariana Jane @queenzucchini.bsky.social A hobbit shield-maiden. Wordsmith and bookwyrm. Bookseller & reviewer. Co-host of
#WyrdAndWonder. She/her 🇿🇦🇮🇹🇬🇧
https://thequaintbooknook.com/
Abigail Nussbaum @abigailnussbaum.bsky.social Blogger, critic, 2017 and 2025 best fan writer Hugo winner.
Blogs at wrongquestions.blogspot.com and www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com
Review collection TRACK CHANGES available at briardenebooks.uk/shop/
Member of the 2026 Otherwise Award jury
Jon McGregor @jonmcgregor.bsky.social I write novels and stories . (Recentlyish: Lean Fall Stand.)
There is a Substack: https://classnotesbyjonmcgregor.substack.com/
Also learning Dutch - kom maar bij mij en nederlands met me spreken, alstublieft x
Simon Morden @comrademorden.bsky.social Author, scientist, maker, lefty.
Website: www.bookofmorden.co.uk
Kate ✨🐱 @magickitten.bsky.social ⛓️ https://linktr.ee/kate.neilan
🐈⬛ Cat lover 🪷 Outdoors appreciator
🏴 Cymru am byth 📝 Stories or death
✨💛🤍💜🖤✨🩷💜💙✨
Caroline Hardaker @carolinehardaker.bsky.social Author, Poet, Novelist. A bit witchy. MOTHTOWN & COMPOSITE CREATURES from Angry Robot, LITTLE QUAKES & BONE OVATION from Valley Press.
Ever Dundas @everdundas.bsky.social Writer: Goblin | HellSans
Inklusion Guide co-founder
A tiny bit obsessed with James Dean
#Autistic #QueerCrip
#TransAlly
(banner photo: The Abomination 🖤 from Lynch's Dune)
https://linktr.ee/EverDundas
Jay Wolf @jayxwolf.bsky.social sff writer & dev editor, book designer, author-illustrator, lapsed podcaster, sculptor, fabricator, Viable Paradise alum, online community specialist, queer as in here, they as in them, kennywood enthusiast.
writes books as @mdmcd.com
Jonathan Atkinson @lowwintersun.bsky.social Live near Manchester (UK), work on citizen-led/co-op approaches to the energy transition as a way to tackle climate change. Interested in politics, urban design, anarchism, co-ops and football (not necessarily in that order). 
Jeff Young @wildtwin.bsky.social Writer, collagist, memoirist, essayist. Scavenger. Ex-Radio Dramatist, Ex-Playwright. Retired wanderer.
Author of Ghost Town: A Liverpool Shadowplay, (Little Toller); Deliria, (Rough Trade Books)
Wild Twin, (Little Toller)
John Burn-Murdoch @jburnmurdoch.ft.com Columnist and chief data reporter the Financial Times | Stories, stats & scatterplots | john.burn-murdoch@ft.com
📝 ft.com/jbm
Runalong Womble @runalongwomble.bsky.social Womble of Liverpool. Enjoys geekery, bad jokes & may tempt a bit. pronouns - he/they/Womble Also Book Blogger/Tempter run fast, laugh hard, be kind - https://www.runalongtheshelves.net
Giselle Leeb @giselleleeb.bsky.social Short story collection, Mammals, I Think We Are Called (@saltpublishing.bsky.social), Edge Hill Short Story Prize '23 Longlist, Word Factory Apprentice '19, Best British Short Stories '17 https://giselleleeb.com/
Sam Byers @sambyers.bsky.social Author of Idiopathy, Perfidious Albion, and Come Join Our Disease
Melanie @melobeee.bsky.social Bookshop owner. Middlesbrough men and Manchester City women supporter. Green menace. Mother of a son.