Arnold Thomas Fanning @arnoldtfanning.bsky.social Writer, Walker, Photographer, Record Collector. Essays & Stories in The Dublin Review, Banshee, The Stinging Fly, The Lonely Crowd & elsewhere. Author of Mind on Fire (Penguin Ireland, 2018).
https://about.me/arnoldthomasfanning
Irish Literary Times @irishlittimes.bsky.social Promoting Irish writers and writing - maintained by Gerard Beirne
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Books Upstairs @booksupstairs.bsky.social Dublin’s Oldest Independent Bookshop | D’Olier St, Dublin 2
Bookshop open Mon-Sat 10-6; Sun 1-5
Café open Tues-Sat 10.30-4.30; Closed Sunday & Monday
Cymera Festival @cymerafestival.co.uk Scotland's Festival of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Writing.
🖊️ 2026 Festival 5-7 June, in Edinburgh & online. Tickets on Sale 1 March 2026
www.cymerafestival.co.uk
South Warwickshire Literary Festival @southwarkslitfest.bsky.social The Local Festival for Local Authors
Affordable, accessible, and tremendous fun. Main festival Saturday 20th September, evening events 12th June & 18th Sept Leamington Spa Warwickshire www.southwarwickshireliteraryfestival.com
Thought Bubble Festival @thoughtbubbleuk.bsky.social The UK’s Biggest Comic Art Festival!
Across Yorkshire 9-15 November 2026, with HUGE Comic Convention 14 & 15 November, Harrogate! Tickets on sale ✨
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Islay Book Festival @islaybookfest.bsky.social We are an annual autumn book festival on Scotland's whisky isle. Next festival taking place 27th - 30th August 2026. 📚
Chiltern Kills Crime Writing Festival @chilternkills.bsky.social The UK’s biggest one-day crime writing festival, just 18 minutes out of London and featuring some of the biggest names in UK crime fiction.
Every penny of every ticket sold goes to help Centrepoint end youth homelessness in the UK.
Hay Festival @hayfestival.bsky.social ...a world of different...
hayfestival.org 
StokeyLitFest @stokeylitfest.bsky.social ‘One of the best book bashes in the UK’. The Quietus. 5-7 June 2026.
West Cork Literary Festival @wcorklitfest.bsky.social * We are most active on Instagram * Thanks for joining us and making this year our biggest, buzziest festival yet. Save the dates: July 9-16 2027
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Harrogate International Festivals @harrogatefestivals.bsky.social We bring the very best in music, literature, crime writing, salon, spectacle and education to Harrogate
Stockport Noir @stockportnoir.bsky.social Crime fiction festival in the North West. Saturday 31st January 2026 at Stockport Masonic Guildhall
Faversham Literary Festival @favlit.org Book talks. In a brewery!
10-days of author talks and book events taking place annually in a Kentish medieval market town
20 Feb – 1 Mar 2026
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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
Hull Noir @hullnoir.bsky.social A regional, national and international crime writing festival. Monthly evenings running at Hull Libraries featuring debut authors through to bestsellers.
Big Bearded Spookseller @bigbeardedbookseller.com I’ve got a beard, I sell books
Books read: 91/100
📚 Feeding the Monster
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MichaelBurke @michaelsreading.bsky.social Enthusiastic book reader and reviewer, with a passion for music. L.A. native soaking in the world from Lakemore, OH nowadays. 
Blackstaff Press @blackstaffpress.bsky.social Founded in 1971, Blackstaff Press is regarded as one of Ireland’s foremost publishers and is a leading publisher of quality Irish books.
https://blackstaffpress.com
Skein Press @skeinpress.bsky.social Independent publisher of stories underrepresented in Irish literature
📚Contentious Spaces by Rosaleen McDonagh & The Posthumous Book of Shahrazad by Raquel Menéndez trans by Robin Munby
🎤In the Half Light:Voices from Black Ireland curated by Phil Mullen
profiles @profilesjournal.bsky.social Publishing portraiture in prose and visual art
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Molly Hennigan @mollyh.bsky.social Writer | The Celestial Realm
Writer in Residence University of Galway
Banshee nonfiction editor
Wayne Talbot @waynetalbot.bsky.social TTRPG & Comic Book Writer and Colourist. Dungeon Master for Sorcery & Shenanigans over at The Pubcast (He/Him)
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Morgan Leathem Ventura (they/she) @morganvl.bsky.social Writer of odd things | In Al Jazeera, Poetry Ireland Review, Strange Horizons, Banshee, F&SF, Best Canadian Essays 21' | Codex | MA Seamus Heaney Centre, QUB, PhD UChi | They/She 🏳️🌈 Sicilian-Irish-Egyptian
Arts Council of NI 2025
Banshee Press @bansheepress.bsky.social lit mag & small press | supported by the Arts Council of Ireland | issue 21 (spring/summer 2026) out now | latest book: Render by Billy Ramsell | https://bansheepress.org/
Damien Owens @damienowens.bsky.social Writer/fancy ape
damienowens.com
Latest book, Duffy and Son: https://shorturl.at/6oF6O
Declan Lynch @declynchwriter.bsky.social Journalist, Sunday Independent. Author "Tony 1O"
Dr. Hilary Lennon @hilarylennon.bsky.social Literary historian, teacher of literature, working on a cultural history of Irish letter writing.
Michael Scott Author @flamelauthor.bsky.social Author of the New York Times' bestselling series, The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel http://dillonscott.com 
Siobhan Campbell @poetrysiobhan.bsky.social Irish poet. Collections include Heat Signature & Cross-Talk (Seren). Co-ed Eavan Boland Inside History. Researches CW practice in post-conflict & social care. Awards in Templar, Troubadour, National etc.
Trish Bennett @trishbennettwriter.bsky.social Irish writer, performer, keeper of creatures, Leitrim/Fermanagh border. Roscommon New Writing Award ‘22, ACNI Support ‘22/23. Trishbennettwriter.com. Debut Collection-Stench, Arlen House at https://www.kennys.ie/shop/stench-bennett-trish-9781851323302-1
Macha Press @machapress.bsky.social experimental / formally hybrid / intercultural / recovered poetries
Supported by the Arts Council of Ireland, the Arts Council of Northern Ireland & Shared Island Civic Society Fund, DFAT machapress.com
The London Magazine @thelondonmagazine.bsky.social The UK's oldest literary journal: a review of literature and the arts, est. 1732, published bi-monthly.
thelondonmagazine.org
https://linktr.ee/thelondonmagazine
The Fence @thefence.bsky.social Facts, features, fiction, etc. Buy a subscription to the UK's Only Magazine here: https://www.the-fence.com/shop/
@michaelmagee.bsky.social @michaelmagee.bsky.social Novel: Close to Home
Salmon Poetry @salmonpoetry.bsky.social Salmon Poetry, established in 1981, is Ireland's most prolific poetry publisher.
Directors: Jessie Lendennie & Siobhan Hutson
Salmon Poetry established The Salmon Bookshop & Literary Centre, Ennistymon, Co.Clare, Ireland, in 2012
Eoin Rogers @eoieoin.bsky.social Programme Manager @ The Stinging Fly
Professional Goblin
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.
Síobhra Aiken @siobhraaiken.bsky.social Léachtóir Sinsearach/ Senior Lecturer @ Ollscoil na Banríona, Queen's University Belfast. Member of Young Academy Ireland. Legacies of Irish revolution | modernist & contemporary Irish literature | ✍🏼📖 on urban Gaeltacht communities in US at turn of 20c
Granard Booktown Festival @granardbooktown.bsky.social A National Booktown in the Heart of Ireland
April 17 - 19, 2026
Proudly supported by the Arts Council of Ireland, Creative Ireland and Longford County Council
granardbooktownfestival.ie
#books #festival #ireland #literature #writers
Stephanie @litmaven.bsky.social I👻IWriter. Book maven. Unlikable female protagonist. Aspiring time traveler. Words @electriclit, @crimereads, @Kveller, @mental_floss, etc. @litmaven on Threads.
Eilín de Paor @edepaor.bsky.social She/Her. Dublin. Recent PhD: Transition from School to Adult Life: perspectives of young adults with intellectual disabilities, families & service leaders. Interests: Inclusive Research, Social Justice, Choir, Gaeilge, Poetry https://linktr.ee/edepaor
Seán Ronayne @seanronayne.bsky.social Irish ornithologist & wildlife sound recordist.
http://www.irishwildlifesounds.com/
Using bird sound as a tool to spread love for Irish nature.
Albums:
-Wild Silence
-Hope
Book: Nature Boy (Irish biography of the year 2024)
Doc: Birdsong
Hodges Figgis Dublin @hodgesfiggis.bsky.social Ireland's oldest bookstore, established 1768.
Follow us here to keep up with the day to day going-ons within the shop, our newest store features, as well as projects and news of the greater book community.
beyond the pale books @btpbooks.bsky.social Beyond the Pale Books publishes books on Irish society, politics and culture. We are a not-for-profit business. Belfast/Edinburgh.
www.beyondthepalebooks.com
Gutter Dalkey @gutterdalkey.bsky.social Dalkey branch of The Gutter Bookshop at 20 Railway Road (opp. Finnegan's). Local bookshop with books, gifts & stationery. Marta & May post randomly.
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
Eithne Shortall @eithneshortall.bsky.social Writes books, wrangles children
Children's Books Ireland @childrensbooksireland.ie Children's Books Ireland is the national charity & arts organisation that champions every child's right to develop a love of reading.
Charity Reg. No. 20039822
#EveryChildAReader
Arlen House @arlenhouse.bsky.social New Writing from Ireland for the World
Roisin Meaney 💙📚 @roisinm.bsky.social Made in Ireland a long time ago. Cats, books, tea, spotty bananas. Trying to learn the ukulele.
Pub by Hachette Ireland and Sphere Books UK.
23 novels with my name on them - never gets less astonishing. Teasing out next.
Be kind, it's easy.
Palestine Festival of Literature @palfest.bsky.social 
Gary Grace @gary-grace.bsky.social Writing in The London Magazine, Irish Examiner and The Pig's Back.
📖 Rep'd by Steven Evans at Eve White Literary Agency.✍️
Debut novel forthcoming.
Irish PEN/PEN na hÉireann @irishpen.bsky.social Defending readers and writers. A partner of PEN International.
Colmcille Press @colmcille.bsky.social Publishing house in northwest Ireland, celebrating 1500 years of great writing from Derry and Donegal. Gaeilge agus fáilte.
SUMMER 2025: The Handy Wee Guide to Derry (digital edition) is available for just a quid from: colmcillepress.com
Lou Hall(ow) Author @louhallauthor.bsky.social Author of fiction, non-fiction & short stories. Currently writing #cozyfantasy as Lou Hallow.
Rep’d by @gaiabanks.bsky.social
Sheil Land Associates, London
www.louisehallauthor.com
Simon McGarr @tupped.bsky.social Solicitor, consultant, artist, writes TheGist.ie newsletter.
Visiting Lecturer. Law Society External Examiner in Data Protection law.
Tina O'Toole @isdoighliom.bsky.social Reader, writer, teacher of literature @unioflimerick.bsky.social. 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
Safie Maken Finlay @safiemf.bsky.social Author of The Frozen Man // Autistic // Doesn't Feed the Trolls
Gareth Hanrahan @mytholder.bsky.social He/Him. Novel THE DUNGEON BOOK out August '26. Currently writing: Black Iron 4, The Dreadful Heir, Terraforming Mars rpg, Metadungeon!, Tunnels & Trolls, too much tbh
Belfast Books @belfastbooks.bsky.social Only working class bookshop in Belfast. Out of print books about 'Troubles' in Northern Ireland at our tiny York Rd store and new books are at www.belfastbooks.co.uk with audiobooks at https://libro.fm/belfastbooks and author services at willmybooksell.com
Oisín McGann @oisinmcgann.bsky.social Over 30 years in commercial art and more than 20 as a published author – mostly children's and young adult. No hope of ever getting a proper job. Lifelong nerd who's concerned about climate change. No AI slop wanted. He/Him. http://oisinmcgann.com/
Jay Spencer Green @jayspencergreen.bsky.social “Everything went downhill after the invention of the wheel.”
Dublin-based writer, Dadaist, and layabout. Genre-bending comic novels a specialty. New work, DESCANSO, out now. He/Him https://jayspencergreen.com/
Abridged @abridgedmagazine.bsky.social Poetry / Art Magazine Edited by Susanna Galbraith and Gregory McCartney. Abridged since 2004. A Derry Magazine. www.abridged.zone
@epoquepress.bsky.social @epoquepress.bsky.social époque press is an independent publisher of contemporary literary fiction - books you will love to read.
Swan River Press @swanriverpress.bsky.social Independent press dedicated to literature of the gothic, fantastic, strange, and supernatural. Æon House, Dublin, Ireland. Posts by Brian J. Showers. www.swanriverpress.ie
Chandrika Narayanan-Mohan @chandrikanm.bsky.social Writer, Performer & Cultural Consultant, Multidisciplinary Messer, #STEAM dreamer. She/🤷🏾♀️🏳️🌈♾️ www.chandrika.ie
Irish Writers Centre @irishwriterscentre.bsky.social Leading support and development organisation for writers in Ireland. Programmes | Resources | Courses | Events | #InternationalDebutNovelCompetition 📚
Supported by Arts Council of Ireland.
Andrea Carter @andreacarter.bsky.social Ex-lawyer turned crime writer. Inishowen Mysteries. Agent David Headley. The Artists Partnership for TV & Film. There Came a-Tapping. Little, Brown UK. Lurcher loving veggie.
Billy Mills @billymills.bsky.social Irish poet, cricket fan, book reviews, Bob Dylan.
See my blog: https://ellipticalmovements
#speirgorm
"I give as examples Billy Mills, Susan Howe and J.H. Prynne, although the assumption that they write for themselves is entirely my own" J.C.C. Mays
Mairéad Hearne | Swirl and Thread Book Blog @maireadhearne.bsky.social Irish/Cork Book Reviewer/Blogger 💙 📚☘️ FeedSpot Top 25 Irish Book Blog / Goodreads Top 5% Reviewer 2025
https://linktr.ee/maireadhearne
Dig. Mkting/PA for writingIE/Murder One International Crime Festival (Views my own)
Muiread O’Hanlon @muireadohanlon.bsky.social Irish Writer, lover of books, hiker of mountains ✍️📚
* Shortlisted Historical Writers Association / Dorothy Dunnett Society Short Story Prize 2024
* Shortlisted Doris Gooderson Short Story Award 2024
* Longlisted Bedford Writing Competition 2023 
The Stinging Fly @stingingfly.bsky.social Literary magazine established in 1997 to publish & promote the very best new Irish and international writing. Stinging Fly Press was launched in 2005. Summer 2026 Issue #54 available to buy now:
https://stingingfly.org/product/summer-2026/
Dingle Literary Festival @dinglelit.bsky.social Arguably the best book festival in the west!
#DingleLit will take place again on November 21st, 22nd & 23rd 2025
The Lilliput Press @lilliputpress.bsky.social Ireland's leading independent publisher, founded in 1984. Proudly supported by The Arts Council. Our Stoneybatter bookshop is open 9.30am-5pm on weekdays.
www.lilliputpress.ie
UCD Press @ucdpress.bsky.social We publish the best contemporary non-fiction writing. Peer-reviewed. Representation US @UChicagoPress Australia @WileyGlobal
www.ucdpress.ie
https://linktr.ee/ucdpress
The Milk House @themilkhouse.bsky.social Literary journal of rural writing and experience, edited by @penofryandennis.bsky.social
Susan Lanigan @susanlanigan.bsky.social
Writer, cancer survivor, Green Party member, software dev and avid cyclist on my e-bike.
Ed O’Loughlin @edoloughlin.bsky.social Writer, and that
Flail again. Flail better. 
Writers Guild of Ireland @writersguildirl.bsky.social The representative organisation for writers of stage, screen & radio in Ireland. www.script.ie
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
Emer McL @emerthescreamer.bsky.social I wish I hadn't committed to EmerTheScreamer as my Twitter handle in 2007, but here we are.
Writer
Dublin, Ireland 
An Siopa Leabhar @ansiopaleabhar.bsky.social Leabhair. Litearthacht. Litríocht.
📍66 Sráid Camden Íochtarach, D02 X201
🚪Oscailte Luan go Satharn 10.00-17.00
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Halfway up the Stairs @halfwayupbooks.bsky.social Award-winning Children’s Bookshop, Greystones, Co Wicklow, Ireland
www.halfwayupthestairs.ie
Mon - Sat 10-5:30. Closed Sundays & Bank Holidays 
Gráinne O’Brien @grainneobrien.bsky.social Bestselling author with O’Brien Press. Solo coming April 2025 with Little Island. Bookseller with Kennys Bookshop. Rontu Literary Service. www.rontuliteraryservice.com
Dr. Eleanor Hooker FLS @eleanorhooker.bsky.social Poet & Writer | PhD non-naturalistic narratives of trauma | RNLI Lifeboat Press Officer | Fellow of Linnean Society | Michael Hartnett & Markievicz Awards | Of Ochre and Ash (DedalusPress) | Where Memory Lies(Bonnefant Press) www.eleanorhooker.com
National Library of Ireland @nlireland.bsky.social Sharing Ireland's stories through our unique collections/ Ag roinnt scéal na hÉireann tríd ár mbailiúcháin uathúla.
Explore our collections: https://www.nli.ie/collections/our-collections
Little Acorns Bookstore @littleacornsbooks.bsky.social Award-winning Indie bookshop, Derry, North of Ireland. 70k new & used books. Est 2011. Two LegenDerry Chairs (380 signatures). Typewriter Museum due to open 2025. Donegal owner💚📚
Anja Murray @miseanja.bsky.social Ecologist, nature enthusiast, broadcaster, create #NatureFile @RTElyricfm, make radio docs, weekly column in The Examiner.
Author of Wild Embrace
Katie Holten @katieholten.bsky.social Artist | Author of THE LANGUAGE OF TREES | Host of Sunday Salons | Rights of Nature 🌍 Long COVID 😷 Dysautonomia | Irish in NYC / Ardee | Born @331ppm | Climate Justice
Bio: https://www.katieholten.com/about
Language of Trees: https://bit.ly/LanguageTrees
Caroline Bracken @carolinebracken.bsky.social Irish poet Winner Poetry Business Book & Pamphlet Competition 2024 'Boy, Mother' published by Smith Doorstop
https://poetrybusiness.co.uk/product/boy-mother/
Gary Finnegan - writer @finnegag.bsky.social Winner: Frazzled Lit Short Story Awards
Arts Council of Ireland Agility Award
Dennis O'Driscoll Literary Award
2x Pushcart Prize noms 2025
Non-fiction: Beijing for Beginners (Liffey Press)
Novel in progress
Niamh Donnelly @niamhdonnelly.bsky.social Writer / journalist / critic
niamhdonnelly100@gmail.com
Tom Shiels @itstomshiels.bsky.social Writer of reflective essays on memory, music, and place. Attempting to live slower in the middle of the chaos. Irish living in West Yorkshire.
https://storiessongsseasons.substack.com
Amy Gaffney @amygaffney.bsky.social It’s me!
🧡🧡🧡
Feminist. Poet. Writer~SL Irish Book Awards Short Story 2019~SL Dalkey Creates 2020~SL Penguin Christmas Love Story 2021~Dooligan~Feminist ~Avon Books 2023 & 2024
Damien B Donnelly @eatthestorms.com Home to The Storms journal, now open for submissions, Eat the Storms, the poetry podcast and creator & writer Damien B. Donnelly
Bebe Ashley @bebeashley.bsky.social https://linktr.ee/bebeashleywrites 🌻