Richard O'Brien @notrockyhorror.bsky.social Assistant Professor in Creative Writing at Northumbria University and lapsed early modernist. Working on poetry, novels, & a music memoir/podcast about the Mountain Goats: thirtyyearslater.substack.com. I make music as Groundbird, groundbird.bandcamp.com.
Tom Vowler @tomvowler.bsky.social Word-botherer.
Winner V.S. Pritchett Short Story Prize
www.tomvowler.co.uk
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Jenny Holzer @jennyholzer.bsky.social THE FUTURE IS STUPID
Professor Horror @professorhorror.bsky.social At Professor Horror, we don't just watch horror: we live it, study it, and celebrate it. Run by writers, critics, and scholars who've made horror both a passion and a career, our mission is to explore the genre in all its bloody brillance.
Script to Scream: The Horror Screenwriting Podcast @script2scream.bsky.social The Bluesky home, of the Script to Scream podcast.
https://rss.com/podcasts/script-to-scream
https://open.spotify.com/show/5l5zwqj8pOjrcHlCw0Gxa3?si=5f26585d91214a86
Maria Popova @mariapopova.bsky.social Creator of The Marginalian (once upon a time called Brain Pickings). Lover of books and tress. Petter of moss. Wonderer. Also: almanacofbirds.org
@sanctorium.bsky.social @sanctorium.bsky.social photography writing
Chris @chrisl.bsky.social Storyteller
Physician
Whisky drinker
Proud dog father of 3 huskies
Barb Mackie @bmacaus.bsky.social Newcastle, NSW, Australia. Work in the university sector. Career development, career coach, strengths-based approach. Designing Your Life accredited. Brady bunch family. Five sisters (so many stories I could tell).
Venetia Welby @vvwelby.bsky.social Novelist: DREAMTIME, MOTHER OF DARKNESS Escape artist | Shapeshifter | Cat demon www.venetiawelby.com
Sarah Makes People Watch Things! @torsodapop.bsky.social I donโt want to alarm you, but something very sinister is going on hereโฆ
teacher / giallo enthusiast / general reprobate
Dr Victoria Xiaoxiao Ma @victoriaxiaoxiaoma.bsky.social Environmental Humanities researcher. @LeedsUniEnglish @LeedsEnvHums
#Wordsworth #JohnClare #Romanticism
#walking #birdwatching #naturewriting
Ascending with the Earth ๐.
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Peter Kravitz @peterkravitz.bsky.social Couples, individual & trauma psychotherapist in Edinburgh. Climate grief, poetry relief.
Editor: The Picador Book of Contemporary Scottish Fiction. Shakespeare for everything & nothing.
(And my Great Aunt Fanny ran The Vegetarian Hotel in the Catskills.)
Seรกn Padraic Birnie @seanbirnie.bsky.social seanbirnie.com
https://undertowpublications.com/shop/i-would-haunt-you-if-i-could
Short stories in ergot, Weird Horror, Interzone, Remains & elsewhere
me/cfs
elle c @ellecantwell.bsky.social writer, wanderer, theatre person
Associate Poetry Editor at Identity Theory
Jeff Marks Memorial Poetry Prize
Pushcart Prize nominated
Letterboxd @letterboxd.social ๐งก๐๐ A global community of film lovers. Share your taste in movies via our free apps for iOS, Android, Apple TV, and on the web. https://letterboxd.com
Bloody Disgusting @bloody-disgusting.com ๐ Your #1 source for all things #horror ๐
Discord โก๏ธ http://discord.gg/s452vAnDx2
Susanna Crossman @susannacrossman.bsky.social Writing. Teaching. Mentoring. & hospitals...
Books: @penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social @ofmooseandmen.bsky.social @pressassembly.bsky.social @edlacroisee.bsky.social
Words: Guardian, Aeon, Vogue, Paris Review...
https://susanna-crossman.squarespace.com
Susan MacKinnon-part owner of Canada @coyotekitchen.bsky.social Yoga. Cross Country Skiing. Bicycling. Mom-3 kids & 4 cats. Learning the trumpet ๐บ and how to canoe for fun
Mujib @mujib.bsky.social Award-winning poet, lingerie model, triathlon champ. On the Blueskies since 1997. [Disclaimer: Opinions are my own, not Victoriaโs Secretโs. Reskeets = Engorgements.] เดฏเต! ๐ฅฅ๐
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Jo Scott Heritage @joscottheritage.bsky.social By day, heritage consultant based in the North of England. By night, writer of novels & short stories, seeking representation. Shortlisted Yeovil Literary Prize 2024. www.joscott-heritage.co.uk joscottwrites.uk She/her
Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu Nomad of the Time Streams.
Wet Plate Photographer
Pyrotechnical Wizard of Doom
Sardonicus.eu
Katie Anderson-Morrison @katieam.bsky.social Historical novelist, book lover & freelance writer/editor with ME/CFS. Currently writing about a 1930s spirit medium.
๐ CBC breakthrough mentee 2024
๐ MMA mentee 2022
https://linktr.ee/katieandersonmorrison
Sam Spurlin @samspurlin.bsky.social Founder of Deliberate Works, a solo consultancy focused on building ever better organizations.
Niamh Mac Cabe @niamhmaccabe.bsky.social Writer, artist, stylite.
Fair to middling spinster.
Magpie apologist.
Good at everything.
Northwestern Ireland.
Also Instagram, and X.
https://niamhmaccabe.wixsite.com/mysite
Pennylane @theregoestheplanet.bsky.social Unlike most - I actually enjoy screaming into the void.
Sometimes Iโll have words to share, sometimes Iโll have nothing but random photos.
Specializes in the art of missing the shot.
crumbum @fuwolfman.bsky.social pilgrim on the road to nowhere
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Tania ๐พ @tania.dev Lead singer of Floppy and the Diskettes aka Notorious F.T.P.
Principal Software Engineer
I write at https://tania.dev
Wendy O'Rourke @wendyo.bsky.social Art + Music + Design + Positivity
Pรกdhraic Quinn @quinnpadhraic.bsky.social 2025 Irish Book Awards Winner for New Irish Writing Best Short Story
2025/26 London Library Emerging Writer
https://m.independent.ie/entertainment/new-irish-writing/new-irish-writing-all-the-birch-trees-were-waving-by-padhraic-quinn/a1765826609.html
Dan Draper @dandraper.bsky.social Writer: flash; short stories; audio drama; having another crack at a novel.
Maths teacher: mostly in the classroom; occasional freelance bits; some ITT roles with fancy job titles.
danieldraper.uk
A Mutual Fascination: British Horror and the Psy Disciplines @mutualfascination.bsky.social A Leverhulme Trust Research Project, based at the University of Glasgow, investigating the relationship between the โpsy disciplinesโ and horror fiction in British culture.
Maz Moreno (They/Them)๐ณ๏ธโ๐๐ดโโ ๏ธ๐ถ๏ธ @arinissa.bsky.social NB Pan Pirate, AuAdhd & other neurospiciness. Horror, sci fi, gaming, animie, Kung Fu ,history, TTRPG, & cat lover. Found mostly in North Wales & my own crazy mind. Devourer of Rum Real Ale, books & extremely spicy food. Chaotic Neutral
Review 31 @review31.bsky.social An online literary review. Est. 2011
www.review31.co.uk
LucyBee @lucy-bee.bsky.social A person (she/her) with a deer (unknown).
Somewhat amiable, somewhat sarcastic.
Gabriela Marie Milton @g-marie-milton.bsky.social 3 X #1Amazonbestseling poet, award winning author, Pushcart Prize Nominee, publisher, https://literaryrevelations.com.
l e a @leabysea.bsky.social Oh hey โ
#sussexgrey โ https://tinyurl.com/sussexgrey
Collector #postcardfromlea
Sound stories https://marlinspikeproductions.com/
Siรขn Pearce @sianp.bsky.social Public law solicitor, horror researcher.
"Gary Sherman's Nemesis" (Abertoir, 2023)
https://linktr.ee/SianP
Shon-Lueiss @shonlueiss.bsky.social Poetry, art, and idealistic musings. ๐นโ๏ธ๐ต๐ทโ๐พ
Big Bearded Spookseller @bigbeardedbookseller.com Iโve got a beard, I sell books
Books read: 91/100
๐ Feeding the Monster
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https://www.bigbeardedbookseller.com
https://linktr.ee/bigbeardedbookseller
Jack Morris @jackmmorris.bsky.social Writes a bit (Pushcart nom x 2, Best Microfiction โ26, Fish 3rd prize โ26), reads a lot. Drama (on-stage, mostly) ๐ณ๏ธโ๐
Editor: https://www.neitherfishnorfoul.com/ @neitherfishnorfoul.com
my published stuff via: https://thewavingnotdrowningblog.com/
Wendy Pratt @wendypratt.bsky.social Author: The Ghost Lake
Poet: Blackbird Singing at Dusk
Editor: Spelt Magazine
https://linktr.ee/wendypratt
Nicholas Allen @dedalusdenaries.bsky.social โsigns and characters from the type-case of forgotten thingsโ Sebald
Late Heaney (https://bit.ly/40oRn76)
Hadas Weiss @hadas.bsky.social "I used to be just like you before I started going to therapy"
The Wayward Anthropologist coming April 2027
Abigail Larson @abigaillarson.com Illustrator, character designer, concept artist, draws a lot of ladies and monsters. Won a Hugo.
Netflix, WB, Disney Books, WotC, Penguin, Macmillan, Hachette
Torino ๐ฎ๐น
Rep: Alison Mann
โฃ She/Her โข
โฃ Prints, patreon, merch: abigaillarson.com โข
โฃ No GenAI โข
Fiona Tribe @fionatribe.bsky.social Cultural Anthropologist | Workplace Strategist | Ethnographer | Clay Artist | into architecture, cultural literacy and Stuff | Wurundjeri land/Melbourne | fiona@whiteowl.net.au | No DMs | whiteowl.net.au
Abertoir Horror Festival @abertoirfest.bsky.social Gลตyl Arswyd Ryngwladol Cymru | Wales' International Horror Festival // โ๏ธ by Nia // 12-16 November โจ 20 years of Abertoir in 2025!
aundria @aundriaparker.bsky.social Muse for hire. Librarian. Cohost of @itsthehippocket.bsky.social. Occasional writer. Some other stuff. All the information is on the task. Support human art - fuck AI.
๐ ๐ข๐ต https://boxd.it/5plf
โ๏ธ https://ko-fi.com/aundriaparker
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La Femme Merveilleuse Invisible @larwoolf.bsky.social 
Ghost @whereghostsroam.bsky.social Hobbiest . Writer . Fiber Artist
Will Wiles @willwiles.bsky.social Author of several novels. "The Dead Man's Empire" is out now (Angry Robot). And so is the short story collection "The Anechoic Chamber & other weird tales" (Salt). Writes about architecture for @apollo-magazine.com. He/him.
Sasha Ravitch โ๏ธ @sasharavitch.bsky.social writer & educator & academic.
cthulhu(s)cene queen.
hwa; codex.
banff writer residency '25.
words in strange horizons, ergot., cosmic horror monthly, & more.
co-founder antilogos press.
pioneered a field of posthuman witchcraft.
Zamira Rahim @zamirarahim.bsky.social Staff editor for The New York Times (in London). Previously writing for CNN and Time Magazine. One of those Brits who ended up in American media.
BESTIE ZUR KUNST @ugh1234.bsky.social material @mkollmer.bsky.social
milk @milkying.bsky.social i draw, write and overthink ๐ณ๏ธโ๐๐ง๐ท
joyous fox @joyousfox.bsky.social scrapbook. alt. ideas.
Zachary Gillan @megapolisomancy.bsky.social Nonfiction about weird fiction at Seize the Press, Strange Horizons, Interzone, Los Angeles Review of Books, Nightmare, and Ancillary Review of Books, where I am also an editor. Also jazz, metal, leftism. he/him
https://doomsdayer.wordpress.com/writings/
Halloweeno @vimtotime.bsky.social Never alone!
https://linktr.ee/hellohalloweeno?utm_source=linktree_admin_share
Tech Dame Krissi @xkrissix.bsky.social Voice Actor who loves gaming and cosplaying. Check out my podcasts the Modus Files , The Wizard Scrolls and Appalachia a Fallout 76 Story to name a few,
Links and Reel: https://www.virtualkrissi.com/home/
Landlocked ๐งโโ๏ธ
Kenny Mooney @kennymooney.bsky.social Software dev and writer of books youโve never read.
Angela Hirons @foxglove1977.bsky.social Liverpool-based DE-ENG literary translator & copy editor. Currently translating Simone Scharbert's 'Rosa in Grau' for Seagull Books. Art and photography. Jeg lรฆrer norsk. www.angelahirons.com
Sparky Mularkey ๐ข @sparkymularkey.bsky.social The other Taskmaster fan. ๐
Writer | Dinรฉ (Navajo) Indiginerd | ๐ณ๏ธโ๐ | โธ๏ธ
I had that viral Batman birthday party! ๐ฆ
Luci Olivia Fitzpatrick - Screenwriter @lucifitzpatrick.bsky.social Repped | Optioned | Award Winning TV Screenwriter | BA HONS TV Production | lucifitzpatrick.com
Craving @calluptome.bsky.social Here we are! Horror movies, gardening, nature, no I donโt know you unless I know you for a billion years
Katy Soar @kjsoar.bsky.social PhD. Senior lecturer in Archaeology @uniwinchester.bsky.social.
Writer for Hellebore. Editor 'Strange Relics' with Dr. Amara Thornton (Handheld Press), 'Circles of Stone' & 'Return of the Ancients' (BL Tales of the Weird). She/her.
I have a dog.
Mike Matthews @mikejohnmatthews.bsky.social Architecture, books, culture and a love of places. Lives in Newport, South Wales; which contradicts all of the above.
Steph Louise @ravenatadesk.bsky.social 29. English teacher in a college. Reader and hoarder of books, crochet artist, park runner.
She/her ๐ณ๏ธโ๐
monoton @monoton.bsky.social 
Maria J Pรฉrez Cuervo @mjpcuervo.com Writer, editor โข Founder/ editor @helleborezine.bsky.social (World Fantasy Awards and British Fantasy Awards finalist) โข History, art, myth, mystery.
Bristol, UK.
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๐ helleborezine.com
Nicole Love @nicolelove.bsky.social PhD candidate researching Gray, Murakami, invisible cities and secondary selves at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow
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nicolelove.co.uk
A @driftingisland.bsky.social Transcendental dreamer
https://open.substack.com/pub/driftingisland
{@driftingixland on the dead bird app}
Writer Jo Malby @jomalby.bsky.social Neurodivergent writer (features+fiction) & poet | bibliophile & cinephile | CRPS veteran & advocate | artist
Sharing haiku, photography, literary loveliness & writing tips.
Finding wonder in nature & beauty through life's challenges. ๐ค
inspireportal.com
Elizabeth Baines @elizabethbaines.bsky.social Writer of short stories, novels, plays.
http://www.elizabethbaines.co.uk
Latest publication: Five Different Stories About One Thing (Confingo). https://www.confingopublishing.uk/product-page/five-different-stories-about-one-thing-by-elizabeth-baines
Future Revisitations @futurerevisited.bsky.social Having simply rediscovered how much I enjoy a good read, herewith an irregular log of the subsequent discoveries (and re-discoveries) within a thankfully boundless genre... ๐
255/500
Leeds Lit Fest @leedslitfest.bsky.social 6 - 14 June 2026. Returning for its eighth year, the award-winning festival of words aims to bring together, and help develop, the cityโs literary scene, with writers, poets and performers from Leeds, Yorkshire and beyond!
#LLF26. www.leedslitfest.co.uk
ะปะพะดะพะผะตััะนััะบะฐ ะบะฝัะทัะฒะฝะฐ ๐บ๐ฆ๐ณโ๐ @sophieindragons.bsky.social Autistic; Ukrainian; INFP-A. Mostly singing or thinking about songs; also words.
High-key interested in everything
https://youtube.com/@sophieindragons7809?feature=share9
@kingsleyamis2.bsky.social @kingsleyamis2.bsky.social Books, gardens, travel, photography
Ulrica Hume @uhume.bsky.social Author of An Uncertain Age and House of Miracles. Labyrinth guide.
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www.ulricahume.com
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Read story: https://psalteryandlyre.org/2025/10/13/call-us-not-weeds/
Elise Blackwell @eliseblackwell.bsky.social Novelist interested in arts, sciences, curiosities.
Weird Aunty Mildred @weirdauntymildred.bsky.social
Dark humour, Weird art, Terrible music.
My Little Shop of Horrors.
https://weirdauntymildred.co.za/
David Gaffney @ggaffa.bsky.social Writer, Arts Council manager, musician. Concrete Fields (Salt 2023) Out Of The Dark (Confingo 2021) graphic novel Rivers (Top Shelf 2021) www.davidgaffney.org
Del Hughes ๐๐ @delhughes.bsky.social Award-winning author and feature writer @nation.cymru. Lover of the weird, the uncanny, and the fondanty delights that are French Fancies. Debut book available via linktr.ee/delhughes or in all good bookshops.โ๏ธ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ท๓ ฌ๓ ณ๓ ฟ๐ดโโ ๏ธ #booksky
Joan McGuire @joanmcguire.bsky.social Being the chaos you want to see in the world!
Caregiver, baker, writer, happiest person you will ever meet.
Nightjar Press @nightjarpress.bsky.social Single short story chapbooks since 2009. Uncanny, dark, experimental. Manchester/London. Editor @nicholasroyle.bsky.social. Design @johnoakey.bsky.social.
Rachel @vignettes.bsky.social Absurdist, writer, explorer, escape artist.
Writer of poetry, prose
Words in Literary Revelations: Haiku for Soul Mates @epistemiclit.bsky.social, Pure Haiku, From One Line Vol.7, Survivor Zine, #BOTN nominee x 2 2026
British, lives in Italy
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
Kerry Hadley-Pryce @kerryhp.bsky.social Earthling. Writer (Salt Publishing, Fictive Dream, The Incubator), Runner, Walker, Psychogeographer, owned by Border Collie and Welsh Sheepdog, PhD in Creative Writing
Retiring Female @retiringfemale.bsky.social Social history, theatre, film and TV lover
Mother of an actor, wife of a philosopher & cabbie. Nurse all my adult life.
Yearning for a quiet retirement in South of France ๐ซ๐ท 
Dick Grunert @dgrunert74.bsky.social Screenwriter, Voice Director, Film Fanatic. Not necessarily in that order.
Jane Fraser Writer @janefraserwriter.bsky.social Writer in Gower. Novels โWeights and Measuresโ & โAdventโ (winner of Paul Torday Memorial Prize) Short story collections โThe South Westerliesโ & โConnective Tissueโ published by SALT. Rep'd by Gaia Banks, Sheil Land Associates.
www.janefraserwriter.com
zoom governess @zoomgoverness.bsky.social poet/ phd dropout/ frenemy of visual culture
C. Buckthorn @cbuckthorn.bsky.social Sub-editor of Lรฆr!, the Norwegian leather industry's most esteemed organ. Immerse your soul in love.
Pascale Petit ๐ฟ๐
๐ฑ๐๐ฟ๐ฆ @pascalepetit.bsky.social BEAST April 2025 (Bloodaxe),โTiger Girlโ shortlisted Forward Prize, โMama Amazonicaโ won Ondaatje & Laurel prizes. 1st novel โMy Hummingbird Fatherโ from Salt 2024 http://www.pascalepetit.co.uk
matthew @numinousobject.bsky.social Free Palestine
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