Elizabeth Knox @elizabethknoxnz.bsky.social Author, Aotearoa. Exchanging flaming sword for walking stick. Less damage, more hits.
Alex Reece Abbott @alexreeceabbott.bsky.social Writer | Best Small Fictions | Irish Novel Fair | Bonsai: Best NZ Small Stories | Bridport |Random House WriteNow | London Independent Prize Rising Star | Katherine Mansfield Sparkling Prose | Pulp Literature Showcase | Arvon | https://alexreeceabbott.info
BookwormVaught - Dr Anna Vaught @bookwormvaught.bsky.social Author of many books, teacher, mentor, #Curae, campaigner, doctored, mum of 3. Wilts, Wales, Southern US https://linktr.ee/bookwormvaught?utm_source=linktree_profile_share<sid=00043ddf-6cad-43e1-8c8a-d89 rep. Clare Coombes at Liverpool Literary Agency 🇵🇸
Joelle McTigue 📷 @joellemctigue.bsky.social Artist examining memory as unstable matter shaped by movement, repetition, access, power, and erasure. Madrid. joellemctigue.com
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Not In Our Name (NION) Women @nionwomen.bsky.social Women working towards a kinder world. Join our campaign against the active discrimination of trans & non-binary people. Over 110,000 signatures of support, and counting 🙏
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AL Kennedy @writereralk.bsky.social Author, comic, broadcaster and tired person.
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George Penney @georgepenney.bsky.social Author of funny books, cultural omnivore. I like tea and cats, not necessarily in that order. I inhale deeply when first stepping in to bookshops and libraries. 🌈
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Ellie Hawkes @elspells13.bsky.social Writer and reader indulging my bookish nature 💙📚
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Ruth Diver 🇳🇿📚🇫🇷🌏 @ruthdiver.bsky.social Literary translator, reformed academic, tangata tiriti, she/her.
Te Herenga Waka University Press @thwupbooks.bsky.social Aotearoa's leading publisher of new fiction, poetry and nonfiction. Formerly Victoria University Press.
Helen Rickerby @helenrickerby.bsky.social Poet and so forth.
genevieve marenghi @stgenevieve.bsky.social My @womensprize.bsky.social Discoveries listed novel, No Oil Painting, was published by Burton Mayers Books October 2025
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Sarabande Books @sarabandebooks.bsky.social Award-winning publisher of poetry, short fiction, and essay. Headquartered in Louisville, KY.
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Charles Harris @chasharris.bsky.social Author, film-maker, martial artist, Green, long-term Spurs supporter, currently on the Management Committee of the Society of Authors (but all opinions are strictly my own) https://www.charles-harris.co.uk
Lit Hub @literaryhub.bsky.social A daily literary website highlighting the best in fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and criticism.
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L.C.Winter @lcwinter.bsky.social Writer of historical gothic. 'Spider, Spider' out now.
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Solidarity RPM @solidarityrpm.bsky.social Darren Mark Skilton - Brighton & Hove. Left. Supporting activism, social action, and activist organisations. Collective Action.
Socialist. LGBTQIA+. Anti-facism. Anti-racism. Climate activism. Free Palestine. NHS. Love and Solidarity.
Todd Atticus @toddatticus.com Artist and book cover designer
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James Bailey @drjamesbailey.bsky.social Writer from Manchester. LIKE A CAT LOVES A BIRD, my biography of Muriel Spark, out now! 🐈⬛
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Valeria Vescina @valeriavescina.bsky.social Author 'That Summer in Puglia' (2018). Creative-writing tutor, runs writing retreats in the Alps. Founder member & co-manager @WomenWritersNet. #HistFic novel inspired by true events in 16th-century Italy will be out in 2026. Women's history nerd.
Bookshelfie ⭐️ @bookshelfie.bsky.social The Self-Pub Hub (Book Review and Story Site)
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Rory O’Connor @roryoc.bsky.social Professor of Health Psychology, Author, Podcaster, Journal Editor, Director, Suicidal Behaviour Research Lab @UofGlasgow, www.suicideresearch.info
Rose Ruane @regretteruane.bsky.social Artist, writer, sweetheart, battleaxe, she/her
Novels This Is Yesterday & Birding with Corsair Books
Rep: Becky Thomas at Lewinsohn Literary
Chair of The Adamson Collection Trust: work created in the art therapy studio at Netherne hospital during the C20th
Nazaret Ranea @nazaretranea.bsky.social Poet. Scotland’s Next Generation Young Makar. My debut collection, Nettles, is out now! 🇪🇸🏴
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@katebeales.bsky.social @katebeales.bsky.social Writer, theatremaker, facilitator. I work with stories. Debut novel Broken Horses, set in windswept Patagonia, coming soon…
Damian Barr @damianbarr.bsky.social Writer & broadcaster.
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📕 The Two Roberts is my new novel. I’ve curated an exhibition about them for Charleston in Lewes which is now in Nottingham.
📕 Maggie & Me.
📕 You Will Be Safe Here.
PhD, FRSL, FRSE
Silver Press @silver-press.bsky.social A feminist press feat. Ursula K. Le Guin, Audre Lorde, & Leonora Carrington. Announcing: Spiral House! An imprint for art, poetry & ways of knowing 💫 silverpress.org
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Kristen Phillips @kristenphillips.bsky.social Author, poet, dementia book reviewer with special interest in dementia. 1st book is Dad, You've Got Dementia: Conversations with my father (The Cuba Press, 2023), working on sequel. Enjoy dancing Argentine tango, and reading. Favourite colour is green.
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.
Bloodaxe Books @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social Bloodaxe Books, Britain's leading international poetry publisher.
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Sam Missingham @samatlounge.bsky.social Publishing commentator. Founder of Meet The Booktokers, As Seen On Booktok, and The Empowered Author. Trying to disrupt book publishing for 15+ years. Not easy. 
Words Without Borders & WWB Campus @wwborders.bsky.social The home for international literature since 2003. Winners of the Whiting Literary Magazine Prize.
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Mandy Hager @mandyh.bsky.social Writer, Greenie Granny worrying for my grandkids future
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Dr Surekha Davies, Historical Monster Consultant (she/her) @drsurekhadavies.bsky.social Historian of science, art, & ideas 🗃
Words: Smithsonian, LA Times, TLS, Aeon, Nature, Science.
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Clem Cecil @clemcreates.bsky.social Writer (memoir, architectural history) journalist, writing mentor. Currently writing about the childless experience. Substack: Living Writing.
Elizabeth Kerr @elizabethxkerr.bsky.social Music writer, arts lover. I write about music, mostly the so-called classical kind, on my free website www.fivelines.nz and for NZ Listener. 🌈
Maggie Rainey-Smith @at-the-bay.bsky.social Novelist and Poet
(also writes essays, short stories and loves Friday #rāmereshorts) Favourite title 'Grams/Halmoni/Nana
I blog at acurioushalfhour.com
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Bill Manhire @pacificraft.bsky.social Socially inept but likes to sing in front of strangers. Wow published by THWUP in NZ http://teherengawakapress.co.nz/wow/ & Carcanet https://www.carcanet.co.uk/9781800170049/wow/ in the UK.
Toitū Te Tiriti!
Tracy Farr @hissingswan.bsky.social she/her pākehā writer
in Aotearoa NZ; of Australia
novels THE HOPE FAULT (family/anxiety/geology), THE LIFE+LOVES OF LENA GAUNT (love/loss/theremin)
May 2025: 3rd novel, WONDERLAND
Bad Diaries Salon + Podcast
tracyfarrauthor.com
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Paula Green @paulajoygreen.bsky.social poet, blogger, children's author
Erica Gillingham @ericareadsqueer.bsky.social writer • poet • bookseller • hella queer
pamphlet THE HUMAN BODY IS A HIVE
substack CALL ME MAMA • PhD in YA
bookseller @gaystheword.bsky.social
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Anna Jackson @flewoutof.bsky.social Poet! https://www.annajackson.nz/
she/her
When I translate Catullus writing as Sappho, as Ariadne, as Attis, as Procne, am I bird or birdsong? The journey, or the backwards glance?
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
Jonathan Coe @jonathancoe.bsky.social Writer. New novel coming in November: LESSONS IN HARMONY. Previous titles include What a Carve Up!, The Rotters' Club, Middle England, The Proof of My Innocence ...
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Yiyun Li @appletwigli.bsky.social Fictioneer
Catherine Robertson @cjrauthor.bsky.social Author of Flora Valley, Miss Lovelock and Imperfect Lives series romcoms (catherinejrobertson.com) she/her, trans rights, vote Green, owner of cats, dogs and chickens. Banner pic is Bernie judging you
JP Seabright @jpseabright.bsky.social genderqueer genrefluid writer of things #pwME 🏳️🌈🇪🇺📚
Latest book: Solitary Hotel 🖤 Check links for all the others!
Co-editor of https://effable.uk
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Emma Neale @emenspace.bsky.social Author & editor. Billy Bird (Penguin Random, 2016). To the Occupant (OUP, 2019). The Pink Jumpsuit (QWP, 2021). Liar, Liar, Lick, Spit (OUP, 2024).Author pic by Caroline Davies. Cover photo art work by Sharon Singer.
Linda Collins @lindacollins.bsky.social
Poetry, essays, memoir, fiction, reviews, journalism. Loss Adjustment, Sign Language for the Death of Reason. SL Bridport, Joy Harjo; runner-up Mslexia. MAs from UEA, IIML. NZ, UK, Asia, US publications. Introvert.
@ctrettine.bsky.social @ctrettine.bsky.social 
Tricia Dearborn @triciadearborn.bsky.social Poet. Writer. Editor | New collection Goatscape out with Cordite Books in 2027! | Editor at http://triciadearborneditor.com
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Lorraine Mariner @lorrainemariner.bsky.social Poet & librarian. Two collections with Picador ‘Furniture’ & ‘There Will Be No More Nonsense’, also writing poems for children. Works at the National Poetry Library. Edited some 10 Poems About… for Candlestick Press. Powered by tea across all platforms.
Swithun @swithuncooper.bsky.social Stay-at-home mother of none
Anna Caig @annacaig.bsky.social Hello 👋 I'm an author of historical fiction about women's hidden lives🐺, a communications consultant and marketing expert 😊
Dr Siân Robyns @drsian.bsky.social PhD Literary Translation Studies; freelance editor; reader; occasional writer; translator, A Tale of Love/ Conte de l'amour bifrons by Linda Lê (Mākaro Press); knitter, mad, mad knitter.
Julia Lee Barclay-Morton @julialeebarclay.bsky.social Author THE MORTALITY SHOT (hybrid collection), coach, editor, artist, certified yoga teacher, theater maker, now working on researched memoir about liberation at 57 of being a fashionably late-diagnosed #Autistic: TheUnadaptedOnes.com
Mark Blackburn @markblackburn.bsky.social Writer. Final Approach: My Father and Other Turbulence publ. @claretpress.bsky.social
Winner: Heathrow 70 and 2024 South Hams Lit Fest prizes.
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