Shay.P.Leighton @shaypleighton.bsky.social Community Organizer / Unionist / Spooky Liker
https://linktr.ee/SPLeighton
Todd Wooster @toddwooster.bsky.social 
Rusty Kingswood @rustykingswood.bsky.social Western Naarm. He's a twentieth century boy
Kimbo @kimbojayne.bsky.social Runner • Vinyl Lover • Bloonwatcher
Melbourne
Jeremy Poxon @jeremypoxon.bsky.social i've been bullied to go on here by @maximumwelfare to post about the mutual obligations scandal
contact me if you have MOs issues or questions: jeremy@antipovertycentre.org
Bethany Keats @bethanykeats.bsky.social Writer ✍️ Reader 📚 Artist 📷 Dancer 🩰 cyclist 🚲
Also: languages
PhD: gothic literature, family history
Geelong ✈️ Townsville (sometimes 🇫🇷)
co-editor @sudojournal.bsky.social
co-host @editsannotations.bsky.social
Mardukian @mardukian.com Writer, Artist, puppet maker, Blender Enthusiast, Web Developer, iOS Developer, Husband, Queen of Whimsy, Demiurge to @lukeacl.com’s Space Emperor • Poly 👬👬👬👬👬 • Pisces • FNQ 🇦🇺 • ♓️ / Soft He/ Hard They 🏳️🌈• https://imetjames.com/my-brand-of-poly DP by me
Bec Shaw @brocklesnitch.bsky.social Big Honking Dyke
𝑭𝒓𝒊𝒕𝒕𝒊 𝑻𝒂𝒊𝒍𝒄𝒉𝒂𝒔𝒆𝒓 🐈⬛✨ @frittitailchaser.bsky.social She/Her 💋🔞
C.A. Native 💙
Generally damaged by life
"Bury the Fascists" affiliate
My account has no point 🤙🏼 food, art, existential dread, comedy, political history, punk & metal, thrifting old stuff and the occasional sexy selfie
Ren Wyld @wyld.bsky.social K.A Ren Wyld [-o-] Aboriginal author (Martu) living on Kaurna Yarta. They/she/mx
[Bluesky has locked my DMs]
Links > https://linktr.ee/KarenWyld https://www.paypal.me/KarenAWyld
Lulu Allison @luluallison.bsky.social Artist, maker, author. MDANT.
Happenstance and holy smoke
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)
Jeremy Millar @jeremymillar.bsky.social Artist; have written, and curated, also. Head of Programme, Writing MA, at the RCA, London.
jeremymillar.org
Profile: https://jeremymillar.org/Notes-on-Gesture-for-H-C-2015
Header: https://jeremymillar.org/Neutral-Diluted-2007
Tim Byrnes @timbyrneses.bsky.social Everyone’s favourite rascal
https://linktr.ee/timbyrneses
frank: print witch @mxfrankduffy.bsky.social ✨💀✨ I make pictures, many of which are crow-adjacent
ORIGINAL ART & TAROT DECK ➡️ shop.frankduffy.co.uk
ILLUSTRATION & DESIGN ➡️ frankduffy.co.uk
🏴 Caerfyrddin
One of several people on this site who is not American
I block A/I & mansplainers
🏳️⚧️ they/nhw
Mark Doyle @markdoyle.bsky.social Historian & writer. Britain, Ireland, empire, music. Latest book is on John Cale's Paris 1919 for 33 1/3. Next: histories of African people/music in Ireland. “Pipe-sucking radical” --Mail on Sunday. Views here are my own: my employer has no views.
Rob H&ynes @robonabike.eurosky.social We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stats.
Oxford, UK
Hyo Yoon Kang 강효윤 @hyoyoonkang.bsky.social I write and teach critical intellectual property, theories, law & humanities & history of science in the UK university titanic. Mostly unserious here. Private account.
hyoyoonkang.com
tits andronicus @tambourine.bsky.social 🥞 🫖 📚
sick poet / library mole
london
Doug Mack @douglasmack.bsky.social Probably down a research rabbit hole.
📖 The Not-Quite States of America, about the U.S. territories (W. W. Norton).
🍟Agreeably nerdy food history newsletter: https://snackstack.net
He/him, just another dad in Minneapolis.
Royce Kurmelovs @roycerk2.bsky.social Journalist. Author of The Death of Holden (2016) and Slick: Australia's Toxic Relationship with Big Oil (2024).
For more me: https://www.roycekurmelovs.com/
Get me on Signal: RoyceK.11
Barb 😷🌈✍️🐓☕️📷 📚 🚴🏻♀️ 🚍 🔨 @norfickchick.bsky.social No DMs. AI hater. Walker, writer, photographer, actor, union delegate, Utas English student in Lutruwita/Tasmania. Nerdy introvert. Sunburnable. Menopausal & often injured. Tinnitus & hyperacusis. steppingonthecracks.com
Gaia Jane @gaiajane.bsky.social Disabled poet and artist. American roots music enthusiast. Revolucionísta del corazón.
Poetry Foundation bit.ly/3BydKOn
Every Place on the Map tinyurl.com/yvkjezzm
Luke: grue fodder @captainfez.bsky.social I am a barely sentient bean-bag chair.
(He/him/it/you there)
linktr.ee/captainfez
Marty Pike @martypike.bsky.social Writer. Lawyer. Humanist. Not in that order. Fuelled by stovetop coffee.
Yung En Chee @yungenchee.bsky.social Applied ecologist, conservation science, structured decision-making, spatial modelling, waterways research, she/her
#StayGrounded #NoFlyForWork #NoAISlopware
Proud to #PayTheRent
Lit Hub @literaryhub.bsky.social A daily literary website highlighting the best in fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and criticism.
https://linktr.ee/lithub_
pigiron3.bsky.social @pigiron3.bsky.social Still back of the class.
FDS @freyadalysad.bsky.social pākehā, she/her, very successful and famous.
wrote a book it's called HEAD GIRL. there's poems in it.
freyadalysad.com
Beyond The Zero Podcast @beyondthezero.bsky.social We discuss books with writers, translators and critics from around the world. 
Kat Mc @ebonykat.bsky.social Thalassophile. Lover of Story. Director of Hunter Writers’ Centre and Lighthouse Arts. 🍉
Live, love, swim, play, cry, work and write in Mulubinba on Awabakal land.
Darcy Moore @darcy1968.bsky.social Independent scholar. Traveller. Bibliomaniac. Flâneur. List-maker. Interested in AI. Orwellian. Researching Orwell’s Anglo-Indian family. Recently received the Peter Davison Award for scholarship. https://www.darcymoore.net/
Patrick Mullins @patrickmullins.bsky.social Writer.
Lyra @seren.monster Experimental quantum research • photography and music • Au • she/they
jul.i.an @kathand.kim Monkey… I Shrunk The Chimp!
Jessie L @jessielilley.bsky.social Creative Director, Writer, Broadcaster - host Spin Cycle on RRR plus podcast platforms. Living in Naarm. Baker of bread. Here we go again.
S P Murray @smurray38.bsky.social Scribe, Dilettante, Flaneur
Esther Rockett 🚀 @estherrockett.bsky.social Author: UNIVERSAL PREDATOR paperback & ebook available worldwide https://books2read.com/universal-predator
Universal Medicine cult buster {Benhayon v Rockett (No 8) [2019] NSWSC 169}
Michael Pedersen @michaelpedersen.bsky.social Maker of Books / Edinburgh Makar (Poet Laureate) / my novel Muckle Flugga is out now 💜📚💫 www.michaelpedersen.co.uk
Joseph Schreiber @roughghosts.bsky.social Reader, writer, editor, lonely wanderer. Based in Calgary, Canada. Write about books at www.roughghosts.com Essays Editor at Minor Literature[s].
alison evans @alisonevans.bsky.social author, zinester 👽 they/them 🏳️⚧️ Wurundjeri land 🍃 alisonwritesthings.com 🛸 is mise Alison, is scríbhneoir mé, siad/iad ✨ (can't access DMs, pls @ me)
Nelle from Magandjin @nelle.bsky.social Pascals Wager: Covid edition.
If I'm wrong, I've mildly disadvantaged myself by wearing a mask in public.
If you're wrong, you have played a part in spreading disease, disability and death to millions, possibly including yourself and your loved ones.
wil @wilful.bsky.social Idiot.
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Слава Україні
gabrielle elle cool j @gabriellejean.bsky.social 
Kate Littlejohn @kelittlejohn.bsky.social History, curriculum, curriculum history, books, writing. PhD student researching gender, historical consciousness, and the history curriculum in Australia. Passionate about rural equity. She/her. 🏳️🌈 My words and thoughts are my own.
chris j @chrisjohnston.bsky.social non-fiction - melbourne
https://linktr.ee/chris.johnston
@kitinsky.bsky.social @kitinsky.bsky.social
world's best under achiever
Martin Langford @martinlangford.bsky.social Poetry, essays, reviews. Aphorism. Sydney, Aus. Most recent: The Boy from the War Veteran’s Home (Puncher and Wattmann, 2022). Co-ed (with J. Beveridge, J. Johnson and D. Musgrave), Contemporary Australian Poetry (2016).
Andrew Wittkop @awestfell.bsky.social books, images, place
LITERARY VOYAGERS forthcoming from Belt Publishing
https://andrewwittkop.com
Emerging Writers' Festival @emergingwriters.bsky.social #EWF26 10-18 Sept 2026
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Jacob Wren @jacobwren.bsky.social The Air Contains Honey
Artistic Director of PME-ART
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Dry Your Tears to Perfect Your Aim
Desire Without Expectation
https://radicalcut.blogspot.com
samuel mehr @mehr.nz i am a cognitive scientist studying auditory perception at the University of Auckland and the Yale Child Study Center 🇳🇿🇺🇸🇫🇷🇨🇦
lab: themusiclab.org
personal: mehr.nz
intro to my research: youtu.be/-vJ7Jygr1eg
book: WHY WE HEAR WHAT WE HEAR (2028, Bloomsbury)
Gabe McGrath @gabemcgrath.bsky.social 🦘Aussie 📝 Writer 📻 Radio Creative 🎤 Writing a memoir about Melbourne’s youth-run Hitz FM. 🔊 "Those pesky 90s kids that turned Australian radio upside down."
Rival Image @rivalimage.bsky.social We perform caricatures written by our rivals.
Humour, music, lit.
Sian C @s-camp.bsky.social Writer/Tutor/PhD-doer at RMIT's non/fictionLab
https://www.patreon.com/c/MorningWriteClub
LevonJP @levonjp.bsky.social Writer/director/producer. My first movie, Everybody Gets Stabbed, on Prime. In post on Emu War: A Subtle Examination of the Sheer Caucasity of Colonialism, with a tv show and another movie to be announced. Likes cats, dislikes nazis and rape apologists.
Rebecca Starford @rebeccastarford.bsky.social Writer, magazine publisher, bad gardener.
Based in France.
killyourdarlings.com.au
Journal of Australian Studies @jas-jozstudies.bsky.social Scholarship and reviews on Australian culture, society, politics, history, and literature. Published on behalf of the International Australian Studies Association (InASA).
https://www.tandfonline.com/journals/rjau20
@weatherboard.bsky.social @weatherboard.bsky.social Gen X. Writer. Single parent. She/Her. Living on Dja Dja Wurrung land. Bendigo, Victoria, Australia, The World.
Frovo @frovo.bsky.social posting jokes while the world burns
Most Liked:
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Most Chronological:
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Pun Cop: tinyurl.com/PunCop
Math Cop: tinyurl.com/math-cop
My Cool Store:
doodlybugstudio.etsy.com
My Webbie:
doodlybugstudio.com
James Tate Hill @jamestatehill.bsky.social memoir: Blind Man's Bluff (W.W. Norton, NYT Editors' Choice)
novel: Academy Gothic (Nilsen Prize for a First Novel)
editor: The Writer's Chronicle & Monkeybicycle
agent @ericsmithrocks.bsky.social
WV native
still living in 1986
jamestatehill.com
Bluemoose Books @ofmooseandmen.bsky.social Indy publisher of award winning literary fiction
You can order books here : www.bluemoosebooks.com 
Ben Eltham @beneltham.bsky.social Writer, journalist, researcher, trade unionist
Claire Lacey (they/them) @poetactics.bsky.social poet. nerd. performer. educator. critic. phd in poetry and brain injury. general enthusiast.
located in Ōtepoti Dunedin. from Canada.
Liz Crash @lizcrash.bsky.social heavy reactive volcanic clay, Footscray, Melbourne. no DMs (failed age verification)
Rural Indexing Project @ruralindexing.bsky.social Buildings, signs, and symbols collected by keyword. Original photographic documentation since 2010.
Chicago, IL — www.ruralindexingproject.com
The Quietus @thequietus.com Black Sky Thinking since 2008.
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𝚕𝚘𝚞𝚕𝚊 𝚢𝚘𝚛𝚔𝚎 @loulayorke.bsky.social modular synthesist | 💫 (she/her) | linktree.com/loulayorke
Sara Dowse @saradowse.bsky.social Novelist, poet, story writer, essayist, editor, reviewer, visual artist and political junkie.
Kirkdale Bookshop @kirkdalebooks.bsky.social indie bookshop in Sydenham, SE London | open since 1966
| new books | second hand books | children's books | gifts |
Mon-Sat 9:30-5 Sun 12-4 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
Daniel Hartley @danieljhartley.bsky.social Associate Professor in World Literatures at Durham University. Marxist literary criticism & environmental humanities, new peasantries, agroecology, post-capitalist futures. Views mine.
Paul Dalton @dailetong.bsky.social 
Gazala Anver @gazala.bsky.social Writer (debut WIP Imperial). 
Buttonwand @buttonwand.bsky.social 🇱🇧 🇵🇸
Pretty good tatreez artist, OK writer, bad at guitar
David Wilson @eregnans.bsky.social Generally amazed. Creating at: https://eregnans.substack.com/. Fave tree: Eucalyptus regnans. Work in climate science. Melbourne, Australia. Finalist Tasmania Writers' Prize 2021. PhD hydrology 2003. https://buymeacoffee.com/eregnans
Nazaret Ranea @nazaretranea.bsky.social Poet. Scotland’s Next Generation Young Makar. My debut collection, Nettles, is out now! 🇪🇸🏴
nazaretranea.com | https://www.instagram.com/nazareterreese?igsh=MWdyNmNpNHcxcjVwNg%3D%3D&utm_source=qr
Dorothy Parker Fucks @dorothyparkerfucks.bsky.social Satire fights fascism.
Here, there and everywhere.
Brown. Upset. (she/her)
Living for the after times when I can bodily drag Karoline Leavitt to the Reflecting Pool and shave her head.
Alexander Chee @alexanderchee.bsky.social Novelist and essayist, most recently author of How to Write an Autobiographical Novel. Professor of Creative Writing at Dartmouth College. He/him. alexanderchee.net
Shawn Breathes Books @shawnthebookmaniac.bsky.social BookTuber in Saskatoon
https://www.youtube.com/@shawnbreathesbooks
Mara Wilson @marawilson.bsky.social Writer, actor, audiobook narrator, notorious tryhard 
Julianne Negri @juliannenegri.bsky.social Library worker, writer, reader, puffed sleeve wearer - living on unceded Wurundjeri land. 
David Spurrett @doctorspurt.bsky.social Philosopher, working on evolution of mechanisms of action selection, and their variously situated subversion. https://davidspurrett.com/
Sam Leith @questingvole.bsky.social @spectator lit ed. “Clock-white, still friendly to the earth.” https://bit.ly/TheHauntedWood
Text Publishing @textpublishing.bsky.social A publisher of literary fiction and non-fiction. Three-time ABIAs Small Publisher of the Year; 2018 Leading Edge Books Small Publisher of the Year.
Caitlin Mahony @caitlinmahony.bsky.social Writer based in Australia. Currently working on my debut novel. She/her.
Meera Atkinson @meeraatkinson.bsky.social Writer, recovering academic, uninvited Gumbaynggirr guest.
meeraatkinson.com
@dfrancism.bsky.social @dfrancism.bsky.social 
Luke Herring @lhjh.bsky.social Two daughters, two dogs, two cats, I read a lot but don't do my own research.
James O’Connor @jickle.net Games industry producer, narrative designer, editor and critic. Author of Untitled Goose Game for Boss Fight Books and (unannounced second book). jamesoconnorau at gmail.
Paul M @quolltracks.bsky.social Professional plant nerd, volunteer firefighter, amateur blacksmith, irregular motorcyclist, general wreck on tour.
(and yes that is me but with a little photoshopping)
Rachel Withers @rachelwithers.bsky.social Freelance writer with an unfortunate penchant for Australian politics. clippings.me/rachelwithers/
Ralph Wessman @garradunga.bsky.social based Launceston Tasmania, literary interests, small press publisher
walleahpress.com.au
A.V. Marraccini @saintsoftness.bsky.social essayist + critic + art historian ⎔ book WE THE PARASITES (https://sublunaryeditions.com/products/we-the-parasites) ⎔ Critic in Residence at IDM-NYU ⎔ THESE NEW FRAGILITIES coming in 2028 from Seven Stories Press
avmarraccini.com
Lance Richardson @lancerichardson.bsky.social Pulitzer finalist for TRUE NATURE: The Pilgrimage of Peter Matthiessen. Writer-in-residence at the University of Minnesota. Teach in the Bennington MFA. www.lancenrichardson.com
Greg McLaren @gregmclaren.bsky.social Poet and nuisance. A bit autistic.
New book, camping underground, is a fun post-apocalyptic verse novel with Puncher & Wattmann.
Alina Stefanescu @alinaetc.bsky.social poet. writer. editor. reviewer. translator. corrupted bibliomaniac. exists in romanian and alabamian. hybrid in she/her dreams. self-deleting. self-ghosting.
www.alinastefanescuwriter.com
David @wasabookshop.bsky.social No longer in a bookshop but still in a pandemic. Going to mask etc as long as it takes. Clean the air! Don’t bother messaging ‘cos I don’t have access to that part of the app…
AusPoast @daryltractor.bsky.social I ain’t no abacus but you can count on me
News, politics, scandals, banter and general nonsense. Open to bribery/corruption etc.
She / her / Madam Tractor
cam smith @sexenheimer.bsky.social I enjoy anti-fascism & long walks on the beach. https://3CR.org.au/yeahnahpasaran