The Elizabeth Bowen Society @bowensociety.bsky.social http://www.bowensociety.com/
Kemnay Village Hall @kemnayvillagehall.bsky.social Kemnay VIllage Hall is at the heart of Kemnay, Aberdeenshire.
We are host to a number of social groups and clubs who meet on a weekly basis, and publish the village newsletter.
The hall is available for regular use, or for one off lets for celebrations.
Rachel Malik @rachelmalik.bsky.social Writes, reads, watches, worries. 1st novel Miss Boston and Miss Hargreaves - SL for Walter Scott prize. LL for V S Pritchett Short Story. Second novel, Belvedere, coming soon.
https://linktr.ee/rachel.malik99
Brick Hut Press ~ Christian @bhchristian.bsky.social A sanctuary for all souls.
Enjoy the complete lives of the saints, sages and awakened ones, read or listen, no login required! brickhutpress.com/begin
The Irish Pages Press @irishpages.bsky.social Biannual journal, edited in Belfast, publishing writing from Ireland and overseas. Publisher of The Irish Pages Press. Edited by Chris Agee and Kathleen Jamie.
Kit Fryatt @kitfryatt.bsky.social diminuitivegiant smallsmallth
Books:
forthcoming: All Things That Are Passing, with Ellen Dillon (Spite Press, 2026)
Book of Inversions, with Harry Gilonis,(Veer2, 2025)
Bodyservant (Shearsman, 2018)
Action/Crime/Mystery Film & Screenplay Festival @crimemystery.bsky.social This festival now takes place every single month, giving filmmakers 4 tiers to showcase and promote their film. In-person public events also take place.
https://filmfreeway.com/crimemystery
www.crimemysteryfestival.com
Shelley Roche-Jacques @shelleyr-j.bsky.social Writer of short fiction and dramatic monologue, connoisseur of cake, coveter of cats, lecturer of creative writing at Sheffield Hallam University.
https://www.shu.ac.uk/about-us/our-people/staff-profiles/shelley-roche-jacques
Edward Denniston @pausesilence.bsky.social Poetry: 'The Point of Singing', 'The Scale of Things',
'For Crying Out Loud', 'VITAL'.
Other: 'Interacting' (Drama), 'Word To Image' (Exhibit), 'Hospital Voices', 'Entry & Exit Wound (Texts for composers)
Daniel Hinds @danielghinds.bsky.social Poetry collection New Famous Phrases @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social, UNESCO Bridges of Struga Award, Ilkley New Northern Poet, New Writing North North East Poet, BBC New Creative
https://www.brokensleepbooks.com/product-page/daniel-hinds-new-famous-phrases
Patrick Brannigan @patrickjmb.bsky.social In Choirs; on board of Housing Rights NI, worked at QUB Belfast
An Dún/music/nature/whatever resonates....
Lieven Vandelanotte @lieven.bsky.social English lang & ling academic @UNamur & @KU Leuven. THE LANGUAGE OF MEMES out now https://www.cambridge.org/languageofmemes. He/him. https://www.unamur.be/en/profil/lvdlanot
Des FitzGerald @fitzgeralddes.bsky.social RHA Gallery | Dublin City FM (2003-23) | Le Cool Dublin (2010-16) | 🇪🇺
Jen @jenmarch.bsky.social Just being shy at the moment
Nick S @holgate.permanent.red I am so tired of writing profiles / june carter cash appreciator / late night music nostalgist / my only remaining talent is in finding stuff on the wayback machine
Rufus Hickok @rufus-hickok.bsky.social Occasional writer for Mashable, Bust, Ordinary Times, and others; author of "The Paris Bureau" 2020 DIO Press Inc, pathological reader, returned expat from Canada, New Yorker at the moment.
Eve Patten @evepatt.bsky.social Professor of English, Trinity College Dublin
Philip Taylor @philipjtaylor.bsky.social Commercial and Agricultural Property Solicitor. Companion of John Ruskin's Guild of St George.
zachspruce @zachspruce.bsky.social Rochester, NY. Trashpoet.
Author of the chapbook Vanishing Sun (2024) from Bottlecap Press.
Godwin_lives @pamelaclemit.bsky.social Professor of Humanities, QMUL | Fellow, Wolfson College, University of Oxford | General Editor of the OUP Letters of William Godwin | Writer on the edge | Northumbrian | Trainspotter | website: pamelaclemit.wordpress.com
Dominic Dean @drdominicdean.bsky.social Researcher, teacher and author (Killing Children in British Fiction - SUNY Press, 2024).
I work on contemporary British fiction and film, children, Kazuo Ishiguro, migration, intergenerational conflict. All views my own.
Simon Spanton @simonguy.bsky.social "I strongly feel that this is an insult to life itself."
Wandering. Wondering. Freelance SFFH editor. Commissioning for The Broken Binding. Living in Edinburgh. Views my own and independent of my employers. Photos my own unless otherwise etc.
Experimental/Dance/Music Festival @dancemusicexper.bsky.social Festivals take place in downtown Toronto, Canada, for the audience feedback video.
The festival has created 4 tiers to enhance your festival experience.
https://filmfreeway.com/ExperimentalFilmMusicVideoFestival
https://experimentalfilmfestival.com
Evan Blake @blakesandpains.bsky.social Writing poems in Michigan, lightly published.
The TLS @thetls.bsky.social The Times Literary Supplement. Subscribe here: https://www.the-tls.co.uk/buy
Sati Mookherjee @sati-m.bsky.social Poet: Deś (forthcoming from Tupelo Press, 2027), Eye (Ravenna Press, 2022) and Ways of Being (Albiso Award, MoonPath Press 2023). Recent work in Gulf Coast, Michigan Quarterly Review, Poetry Northwest, SWWIM, MER, RHINO.
satimookherjee.com
Maria Taylor @mariadtaylor.bsky.social Poet, reader, lecturer, sometime reviewer. 'Dressing for the Afterlife' out with Nine Arches Press. Highly Commended in the Forward Prizes. Lover of jam and clouds.
Mark Thompson @markreckons.bsky.social Politics (mainly UK and a bit of US), comedy and popular culture more generally.
Hear me on a radio near you blathering about Burnham or Farage. Probably.
Political Sandbox here: https://substack.com/@politicalsandboxmark
Seán Costello @seanjcostello.bsky.social Editor at large
https://bookeditor.co.uk
June Caldwell @junec.bsky.social Writing Place Writing Planet, UCD / iCRAG 2026 | Lamplight Fellowship 2025 | Literature Bursary Award 2025 | Moth Short Story Prize 2024 | 'Somebody' expo MoLi 2020-2021 | Room Little Darker 2018/17 | https://www.airbnb.ie/h/pinkhousedublin
Uniformbooks @uniformbooks.bsky.social Edited and published by Colin Sackett.
colinsackett.co.uk / uniformbooks.co.uk
Kevin Boniface @kevinboniface.bsky.social Artist/Writer/Postman appearing from behind a rhododendron and cursing loudly #MDANT
Website: https://kevinboniface.co.uk
Sports and Social: https://tinyurl.com/2xmnxh38
Round About Town: https://tinyurl.com/24bwnh2b
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 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
Guillermo Stitch @guillermostitch.bsky.social
Author of LAKE OF URINE and THE COAST OF EVERYTHING
Executive editor at www.exactingclam.com
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/23/books/review-lake-of-urine-guillermo-stitch.html
Longbarrow Press @longbarrowpress.bsky.social Sheffield-based poetry publisher with an ethos of craft, care and collaboration. Books, recordings, films, walks, performances. Editor: Brian Lewis.
https://longbarrowpress.com
Jan Carson @jancarsonwrites.bsky.social I’m not terrific but I’m competent
All bookings via website www.jancarson.co.uk
Joel Herman @joelherman.bsky.social Teaching Fellow in Early Modern History @historytcd.bsky.social @tcddublin.bsky.social | Historian of the news, press, political cultures, and popular politics in Ireland, America, Britain, and the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World
Jonathan Gibbs @jonathangibbs.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing at City St George's, Uni of London. I curate the short story project apersonalanthology.com. Novels are Randall or The Painted Grape, and The Large Door. Poetry is Spring Journal. https://linktr.ee/jonathangibbs
jomorganbooks @jomorganbooks.bsky.social some books in the making
@gbclarkson.bsky.social @gbclarkson.bsky.social 
Sarah O @palimpsest22.bsky.social Mainly poetry in independent presses, art, glass, theatre & people playing. Allotment life. York with Glasgow links. UK.
Not every act of kindness is part of a plan.
Website :www.sarahowriter.com
George Murray @bookninja.bsky.social Poet | 10 books | Neuromancer | Dog person | Habitual founder of things | Nerd | St. John's | http://newpoetry.ca | Other links: https://linktr.ee/georgemurray
@missusvee.bsky.social @missusvee.bsky.social Dubbalin
Wanda Opalińska @wandaopalinska.bsky.social Writer. Actress. Potterer. https://www.berlinassociates.com/clients/wanda-opalinska/
https://engersportelli.com/
International Yeats Society @intyeatssociety.bsky.social The International Yeats Society unites scholars, students, and readers of W.B. Yeats from around the world. Become a member today!
https://internationalyeatssociety.org/
Gary the Cat @greatgramsofgary.bsky.social The cat, the myth, the legend: Gary
Also on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/greatgramsofgary
@onecarguy.bsky.social @onecarguy.bsky.social Life long Liberal and liberal. Fiercely devoted to democracy & pwr of the vote. I enjoy life, my dog, my friends. Have been known to write, at length, re value of a strong public education system. Proud Canadian. Pro Patria. ..the picture is where I live.
@mrdthughes.bsky.social @mrdthughes.bsky.social 
Julene Tripp Weaver @trippweavpoet.bsky.social Poet—latest book: "Slow Now with Clear Skies." Writer. Herbalist—Green Witch. Therapist. Systemic or Family Constellation. Health Artist. #WOMPO https://www.julenetrippweaver.com
Dublin Review of Books @dubreviewofbooks.bsky.social Ireland's premier review of intellectual inquiry for two decades. Published quarterly (www.drb.ie), entire archive since 2007 available. Everything on totally free access but donations of course welcome to keep us going.
Nobody @davidepike.bsky.social Teaching. Geography. Urban Planning & Design. Geosciences. Biological Sciences. Climate. Anti-fascism. Anti-racism. Anti-ignorance. Music. Art. History. Basset Hounds. Bicycles. Lichen. Cryptobiotic soil crusts. Pandemics. Books. Reading. Learning.
Pete Glastonbury @peteglastonbury.bsky.social Loves Cats, Reading, Nature & Photography.
Long time Stone botherer.
Sky gazer.
If you like or share my photos please
Follow me for #StandingStoneSunday Photos.
Colm Brennan @colmgbrennan.bsky.social Poet & Writer
Poetry Ireland Review • Banshee • The Waxed Lemon • Sonder • The Cormorant • Profiles • The Ogham Stone • Arts Council Literature Bursary • MA in creative writing from UL
colmgbrennan.com
Andrew Brewerton @ajbrewerton.bsky.social 
WILDsound Feedback Festival @wildsoundfestival.bsky.social Telling stories through film and conversation. WILDsound showcases the best of new films & screenplays from around the world in a daily film festival.
www.wildsound.ca
https://filmfreeway.com/WILDsoundFilmandWritingFestival
Tim Howles @timhowles.bsky.social Research Fellow, University of Oxford
Theology, philosophy, ethics, politics, environmental humanities
Associate Director @LSRIOxford
Anglican Priest
https://www.theology.ox.ac.uk/people/revd-dr-timothy-howles
Rhona Brown @rhonabrown.bsky.social Professor of Scottish Textual Cultures, University of Glasgow
18th-century Scottish poetry, early Scottish periodicals, textual editing.
Working on a new edition of the poetry of Robert Fergusson (1750-74). 🏴📚📖🗞️📰
@rfergussonpoet.bsky.social
Padraig Reidy @padraigreidy.bsky.social Content Editor, Thomson Reuters Foundation. Dance 10, looks 3
Kathryn Gray @kathryngray.bsky.social Poet. Film fanatic. Editor @badlilies.bsky.social. Hollywood or Home, a Sunday Times Poetry Book of the Year, out now: https://www.serenbooks.com/book/hollywood-or-home/ and https://www.amazon.co.uk/Hollywood-Home-Kathryn-Gray/dp/1781727120
Carol O'Sullivan @carolosullivan.bsky.social Academic, translation researcher, film nerd, zero waste obsessive. Opinions expressed in a personal capacity. #filmtranslationhistory
Schicht im Schacht @schichttorte.bsky.social If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you.
(O. Wilde) 
Keith Ridgway @rid9way.bsky.social writer
Dooneen - out now from Fitzcarraldo Editions and New Directions
previously - A Shock / Hawthorn & Child / Animals / etc
Silver Locust Press @silverlocustpress.bsky.social A new press from Ireland publishing poetry and flash-fiction chapbooks with bespoke cover art. Est'd. 2026. Available at www.silverlocust.press
jamesgrande.bsky.social @jamesgrande.bsky.social Reader in 18th and 19th Century Literature at King's College London - teaching and writing about Romantics, radicals, dissenters and music - Trustee, Keats-Shelley House
IIML @modernletters.bsky.social The home of creative writing at Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington. Undergraduate courses, MA and PhD. Also: harbour views and baking.
Tristan Bouchard @tristanbouchard.bsky.social musician. he/him 🏳️🌈 🎹
lately, jazz.
Dr Ann Kennedy Smith @akennedysmith.bsky.social Writing about books and 19th-20thc women's history in 'Cambridge Ladies' Dining Society' on Substack: https://akennedysmith.substack.com
Essays & reviews also in TLS, Slightly Foxed, ODNB & History Today etc
Franco Amati @francoamati.bsky.social writer, poet, SFWA & Codex, ViableParadise 2024,
new collection WORK IS WORK out now: https://www.amazon.com/Work-Franco-Amati/dp/B0HCCQF9YP/
and for all published fiction visit francoamatiwrites.com
Jonathan Potts @uccellolirico.bsky.social I post mainly about politics, especially immigration and asylum, and the arts, especially music and sometimes poetry. Ex-civil service and volsec. HO Asylum Director 1996-2000, plus ça change.
Benedict Sangster @benedictsangster.bsky.social Writer, Norwich, UK. Lover of all animals. Books and nothing else
benedictsangster.com
Nick Holdstock @nickholdstock.bsky.social Author of The Casualties, China's Forgotten People, et al. Shortlisted for Novel Prize. Rep'd by Pew Literary https://www.the-tls.com/authors/nick-holdstock www.nickholdstock.com Porcupine, a novel, out in December. Substack: https://tinyurl.com/mbze39az
David McAllister @davidmcallister.bsky.social Production & Associate Editor at Prospect. Screeds in the RA Magazine, TLS, New Humanist, etc
dfmcallister.com
Alex Thomson @byebyepride.bsky.social Prof of Modern Literature & Critical Theory | Head of School of Literatures, Languages & Cultures, University of Edinburgh | Deputy Chair, English Association @englishassociation.bsky.social
Anna 🌀 @seasidecoral.bsky.social 
Joey Walnuts @jolwalton.bsky.social AI slop Ian Hislop. Writing a book, After Capitalism: The End of the End of the World | https://linktr.ee/jolwalton
Bob Varettoni @bvar.bsky.social Dad, writer; loves poetry, photography, music, art, and the Mets; Notre Dame alum; career in Public Relations - NYC & NJ - https://linktr.ee/bvar
@janaprikryl.bsky.social @janaprikryl.bsky.social THE CHANNEL @FaberBooks August 27, @wwnorton.com November 3
François Loeser @francoisloeser.eurosky.social 
Robert Rubsam @robrubsam.bsky.social Writing on books, movies, the arts: NYT Magazine, Baffler, Washington Post, Atlantic, Liberties, Commonweal, Mubi, Paris Review, Nation, etc. robjrub@gmail.com
Rachel Loden @rloden.bsky.social Poet. Private scholar. (HOTEL IMPERIUM, DICK OF THE DEAD.) Forthcoming in UNSUNG MASTERS (Wesleyan). Journal of the Plague Years, New American Writing, Paris Review &c. Profile image from Ana Teresa Fernández
Daniel Addercouth @ruralunease.bsky.social Berlin-based Scottish writer. Words in New Flash Fiction Review, Vestal Review, Trampset and elsewhere. Featured in Best Small Fictions 2024. My pen name came to me in a dream. You can find a selection of my writing here: https://linktr.ee/ruralunease
Stoat Poetry @stoatpoetry.bsky.social Stoat Poetry is a paper magazine, based in the north of Scotland. We publish the best original poetry on any theme, from new and established writers.
csm. @csmcilwain.bsky.social hi hello.
Lee Hill @leeroyhill.bsky.social Assistant Principal in Hull | Avid LFC fan
Alice Harper @weatherveins.bsky.social Poet, scientist, plant lover, cat mom.
David Chance @davidchance.bsky.social ‘Resting’ journalist. Cat is Bob and we live in Liverpool. He likes chasing things, eating and sleeping. I like LFC, The Archers and making my way round on a bike. 🚲
Dave Palfrey @01factory.bsky.social Ex-historian of social and political thought (Cambridge, Birkbeck). Ex-Amazon (Alexa, AGI). LRB reader. 2025-26 side-mission: fighting global bias on Wikidata & Wikipedia.
"Only that which has no history can be defined"
David B Hobbs @deebeehobbs.bsky.social Assoc Prof of English (modernism/poetry) at ULethbridge, critic (often in The Nation), ghostwriter of Tár On Tár
Kristin Grogan @kristingrogan.bsky.social This ain’t no party. This ain’t no disco
https://cup.columbia.edu/book/stitch-unstitch/9780231219648
Eamonn Sweeney @sweeneyagonistes.bsky.social Author. The Last Ditch, paperback coming out in May.
Freelance writer. Lapsed novelist. Cinephile. Substack coming soon.
Interesting writing gigs in the politics or arts line gratefully considered.
Plashing Vole @plashingvole.bsky.social Mild-mannered lecturer by day…mild-mannered lecturer by night. Welsh lit, politicians’ fictions. Fencer, cyclist, UCU. Dysgwr Cymraeg; tá gaeilge agam. Barnau fy hun.
Read books; join unions; block cookies.
University of Mordor.
Gregory Dowling @gregorydowling.bsky.social Taught American literature at Ca' Foscari University, Venice. Translator, literary critic, crime-fiction writer. 
David @adpoeticam.bsky.social «not text, but texture» · high school teacher
Katie Murphy @manymanyplies.bsky.social Glaswegian academic, Oxford. Mostly found in the c17th. Preoccupied by essays, etymology, grammar, puns, paintings, Czech. Out in summer 2027: Robert Burton: A Vital Melancholy.
Jude Hsiang @jude-hsiang.bsky.social Gardener
Dyer/instructor (plants, lichens, fungi)
Knitter, weaver, sewist, etc.
Mainer
democratic socialist
Mark Knight 🍉 @markknight63.bsky.social Archaeologist with a Fenland tendency. Happiest in the black, buttery depths seeking old land surfaces. You got them big dreams....
John Wm. Houghton @numenor.reunitedkingdoms.net Episcopal priest; school & seminary chaplain.
Writes on Tolkien, Bede, Hoosier history.
Dog, Beda.
Poems: https://a.co/d/0CneRK8
Thaumaturge of Annandale series: https://tinyurl.com/3dmy77h5
I-Númenóreo Taracáno Lisseryar: https://tinyurl.com/RKGandA- V Rachel Smith @valuequestion.bsky.social Lecturer in Anthropology & Museum Studies. Vanuatu/Western Pacific; labour migration, kava, social change. Co-editor @anthropologyofwork.bsky.social
Max McGuinness @maxmcguinness.bsky.social Research Ireland postdoctoral fellow in French at Trinity College Dublin