Hannah Rich @hannahmerich.bsky.social Senior researcher at Theos Think Tank. Former director of Christians on the Left. Always mixing religion and politics for a living. Fan of good stories, football, big earrings and oatcakes.
Lynsey May @lynseymay.com Writer. Reader. Lover of tall tales. Weak Teeth out now, Prodigy scheduled for 2027: http://tinyurl.com/Buy-weak-teeth
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Buffer @buffer.com The social media management platform for scheduling, publishing & analytics across every major network. Plan your content calendar in one place. This account is managed by real humans. ๐
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Association for Scottish Literature @asls.org.uk Educational charity promoting the reading, writing, teaching & study of Scotland's literature & languages, past & present.
https://asls.org.uk
Vicky MacKenzie @vickymackenzie.bsky.social Writer, cat lady, wrote a novel about medieval mystics, forthcoming novel about John Ruskin. Aspiring anchoress. https://victoriamackenzie.net/
Substack: https://victoriamackenzie.substack.com/
Rick O'Shea @rickoshea.bsky.social Presenter of RTE's Arts show Arena on @rteradio1.bsky.social.
Runs Ireland's largest book club, patron @epilepsyireland.bsky.social, board of Fighting Words NI.
Quizzer.
Rarely here...
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In My Good Books Podcast @inmygoodbookspod.bsky.social ๐งTwice-weekly podcast episodes with authors & book lovers
๐Book reviews & recommendations
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๐๐ปโโ๏ธSusie - She/her
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Ruth Thomas @ruthiesthomas.bsky.social Latest novel The Snow and the Works on the Northern Line (a BBC Book at Bedtime) @royalliteraryfund.bsky.social
Agent Georgia Garrett @RCWLitAgency
https://blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/product/The-Home-Corner-by-Ruth-Thomas/9780571230624
Claremont @claremontcomms.bsky.social Claremont is a behaviour change insight and communications consultancy. We help governments, charities and companies to useย behavioural science + co-designย to solve societyโs hardest problems.
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dmc @dmcdotlol.bsky.social #webdev โข #running โข dmc.lol โข he/him- J @jamiewalsh.bsky.social @jamiewalsh.bsky.social
Johannes Haushofer @johanneshaushofer.com Economist @cornelluniversity.bsky.social. Founder @malengo.org and @busaracenter.bsky.social. Also @stockholm-uni.bsky.social & @econmpi.bsky.social. johanneshaushofer.com
Seema Jayachandran @seema.bsky.social Economics professor at Princeton. I study environmental conservation, gender equality, and (too many) other topics in developing countries.
seemajayachandran.com
Rachel Glennerster @rglenner.bsky.social President CGD. Development economist. Passionate about impact, evidence and innovation.๐ธ10% pledge. Posts=personal views.
cgdev.org
Nathan Nunn ๐จ๐ฆ ๐ฐ๐ท @nathannunn.bsky.social Professor of Economics. University of British Columbia. Political Economy, Economic Development, Economic History, Cultural Evolution. ๐ฐ๐ท๐จ๐ฆ
Stefan Dercon @gamblingondev.bsky.social 
Ranil Dissanayake @scepticalranil.bsky.social I think you'll find it's a little more complicated than that. "Office-talking monster" - my 4 year old. Deputy Chief Economist (FCDO), DPhil (BSG).
J-PAL @j-pal.bsky.social We are a global poverty research center at MIT that conducts randomized evaluations and builds partnerships to bring innovative, effective programs to scale.
Chris Blattman @chrisblattman.bsky.social Economist, political scientist & writer @UChicago @HarrisPolicy. See my book Why We Fight: http://penguinrandomhouse.com/books/636263
Anthony McDonnell @mcdonnell.bsky.social Economist in global health, mostly working on infectious diseases
at the @cgdev.org. I like new ideas, fun stories & evidence based policy.
I'm dyslexic, views are my own, he/him.
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fayscho @fayscho.bsky.social Social & digital strategist specialising in working with nonprofits and charities ๐
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Bookshelfie โญ๏ธ @bookshelfie.bsky.social The Self-Pub Hub (Book Review and Story Site)
Submissions open now:
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Postscript: www.pscript.app
Book tour inquiries: contact@book-shelfie.com
Awil Mohamoud @awiljhm.bsky.social 
Sav Dysard @savdysard.bsky.social Food Systems Transformation | Campaigns | Communications 
Kevin Smith @kevinjgsmith.bsky.social I train and fix up progressive voices for UK TV and radio. Broadcast media nerd. Into politics, climate & energy, social justice issues, #lgbtqia, disco history, trouble making, media stuff, he/him
Lewis Tibbs @lewistibbs.bsky.social Digital Communications Manager @suttontrust.bsky.social ๐ป Interested in politics, policy and regional inequality. Dancing nerd. Northerner and perpetually suffering Man United fan. Views my own!
Emily Casson @emilycasson.bsky.social ๐ฉ๐ปโ๐ป Lead a charity digital team
๐๐ปโโ๏ธ Trustee of a grant making charity
๐ Passionate about all things digital, innovation, fundraising, AI, flexible working and wellbeing
๐ Live at the coast in the North East
Annabelle @lillyringlet.bsky.social I cause chaos doing marketing for charities. I also take way too many photos, run a d&d group and draw random things.
Freya Barnes @freyabarnes.bsky.social I do PR & storytelling for social change. Comms counsel to charities, think tanks & public figures. Previously Engage Britain, Shelter.
Nature & politics. Weird about The Beatles. Aspiring goat owner๐
freyabarnespr.co.uk
After Dinner Conversationยฎ @afterdinnerconversation.com Philosophy | Ethics Short Story Literary Fiction Publisher. Top 10 (Chill Subs) LitMag 2023-2024, books, & podcasts. $ subscriptions (& Patreon) pay writers.
Links: https://bio.site/afterdinner
Fiza Saeed McLynn @fizalovesbooks.bsky.social Debut THE MIDNIGHT CAROUSEL publishes April 2025; repโd by Hellie Ogden at WME
Florence Knapp @florenceknapp.bsky.social I like to write and sew. Contributor to the V&A's book, Patchwork & Quilting. Author of Flossie Teacakesโ Guide to EPP. Debut novel, THE NAMES, May โ25. Repโd Karolina Sutton.
Damian Barr @damianbarr.bsky.social Writer & broadcaster.
๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ณ๓ ฃ๓ ด๓ ฟ ๐ ๐๏ธ๐ ๐ญ ๐บ ๐ป ๐ชด ๐ ๐ฅ
He/Him
www.damianbarr.com
๐ The Two Roberts is my new novel. Iโve curated an exhibition about them for Charleston in Lewes which is now in Nottingham.
๐ Maggie & Me.
๐ You Will Be Safe Here.
PhD, FRSL, FRSE
Benjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.social America's Copy Editorยฎ
author of the New York Times/IndieBound bestseller Dreyer's English and Stet! (the game!) โข Random House copy chief/managing editor (ret.) โข he/him/his
benjamindreyer.com
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
Steve Silberman @stevesilberman.bsky.social Award-winning science writer, author of the New York Times bestseller "NeuroTribes: The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity," and an upcoming book on cystic fibrosis, "The Taste of Salt."
Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social I co-host #VibeCheckPod. Also, I teach creative writing at Harvard Medical School.
BOOKS: Prelude to Bruise, How We Fight for Our Lives, Alive at the End of the World.
My next book HOME OUT THERE comes out in May.
I live in Cambridge, MA. ๐ฆ
Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social https://linktr.ee/roxanegay
Writer, editor, publisher, professor. Some people call me a bad feminist and by some people I mean me.
Emily St. John Mandel @emilymandel.bsky.social Six books including Sea of Tranquility, The Glass Hotel, and Station Eleven. St. John is just my middle name; the books go under M.
Emma Kennedy @emmakennedy.bsky.social Author, screenwriter, Lego builder. Iโm @emmakennedy from the Bird Place.
Garth Greenwell @garthgreenwell.bsky.social What Belongs to You, Cleanness, & Small Rain | 2025 PEN/Faulkner Award | Eeyore at the gay club | https://garthgreenwell.substack.com
Louie Stowell @louiestowell.bsky.social Writer/illustrator of the LOKI: A Bad God's Guide books, Writer of Otherland & The Dragon in the Library. https://louiestowell.com. No terfs. Many fluctuating fandoms incluing BtVS + Doctor Who. This feed isn't for kids.
Helen Macdonald @hjm.bsky.social Writer. One half of a dynamic duo. H is for Hawk, Vesper Flights. PROPHET with Sin Blache. Rep by the Clegg Agency. Non-binary. They/she 
Dr Phoenix CS Andrews @thatdocphoenix.com That writer guy you like. Bi, trans, polyamorous, slutty, neurodivergent, hot. Buy my book that explains why politics has gone weird. I live in Leeds, West Yorkshire, UK. https://linktr.ee/iheartpolitics
Dr Alfredo Carpineti @drcarpineti.bsky.social Astrophysicist, science writer for @iflscience.com, geek, immigrant, and also The Astroholic. Chair of @prideinstem.bsky.social | ๐ Invisible Rainbows out May 21 | He/him | opinions are my own
https://linktr.ee/theastroholic
Charlotte Mendelson @charlottemendelson.bsky.social New novel WIFE out now, Meanwhile: The Exhibitionist, Almost English, When We Were Bad, gardener
Justin Myers @theguyliner.bsky.social Author, journalist, and Guardian Blind Date superfan. A body like Arnold with a Denzel face. (he/him)
theguyliner.com
theguyliner.substack.com
Paul Lisicky @paullisicky.bsky.social My seventh book, SONG SO WILD AND BLUE: A LIFE WITH THE MUSIC OF JONI MITCHELL, is out now from HarperOne. ๐ณ๏ธโ๐๐ฆ๐๐ฆ
Emma Donoghue @emmadonoghue.bsky.social writer of fiction (The Paris Express, Learned by Heart, Haven, The Pull of the Stars, The Wonder, Room, etc), films, plays...
David Benedict @eggsbened.bsky.social Cultural talk and typing. And singing.
Biographer of Stephen Sondheim.
Variety, London theatre critic.
The Stage, Associate writer.
Tristram Hawkshaw in The Archers.
Somewhat gay. 
Polis Loizou ๐บ @polisloizou.bsky.social Writer, performer, storyteller, both bi and curious โข A GOOD YEAR (Fairlight Moderns) ๐ โข East Med to East Mids ๐จ๐พ๐ฌ๐ง (he/him)
http://linktr.ee/polisloizou
Chitra Ramaswamy @chitgrrl.bsky.social Author: Homelands, Expecting. Journalist: The Guardian. Restaurant critic: The Times Scotland. Used to be a person whose profile said only 'don't conclude anything without cheese'. Still am, on the inside.
Brian Halley @brianbhalley.bsky.social Executive Editor at University of Massachusetts Press, based at UMass Boston. Views here donโt reflect them. Feminist, progressive, ๐ณ๏ธโ๐, into books, dogs, ocean, print culture, lit studies, environmental studies/climate justice, and more. 
Simon James Green @simonjamesgreen.bsky.social Author & screenwriter. Boy Like Me, Finn Jones Was Here, Gay Club!, Heartbreak Boys, and more!
www.simonjamesgreen.com
Michelle Tea @michelletea.bsky.social DOPAMINE Books:
OUT NOW
WITCH Anthology
NEXT UP
Self-Romancing by L Scully
Dopaminebooks.org
Me:
Little F out this October
Knocking Myself Up
Against Memoir
Modern Tarot
Black Wave
Valencia
+ more
Tawseef Khan @tawseefkhan.bsky.social Writer & Immigration Solicitor
Buy Determination: https://www.waterstones.com/book/determination/tawseef-khan/9781804442326
Buy Muslim, Actually: How We Get Islam Wrong and Why It Matters - https://atlantic-books.co.uk/book/muslim-actually/
Christian Gullette @christiangullette.bsky.social Poet and author of COACHELLA ELEGY
from Trio House Press
โCool, elegantly controlled poemsโ
-The Washington Post
Buy a copy here:
https://linktr.ee/christiangullette
www.christiangullette.com
Jeffrey Ricker (he/him) @jeffreyricker.bsky.social #Queer writer of #YA and spec fic. Expect lots of Star Trek. Failing to meet the demands of capitalism since 1969. Trans rights or Iโll vaporize you w/a lvl16 phaser. Can I pet your dog? https://jeffrey-ricker.com/links/ and https://ko-fi.com/jeffreyricker
Jackie Mendoza @writerandhounds.bsky.social ๐๐๏ธ๐ง๐ฝโโ๏ธ
Writer, Mystery Seeker, Priestess ๐ณ๏ธโ๐
Peters Fraser & Dunlop Queer Fiction Prize 2023 Shortlistee
Guest Editor, Mentor & Workshop Facilitator: Writing Our Legacy
Liam Quane ๐ณ๏ธโ๐ ๐ @specificityarchives.com Filmmaker
Author | SPSFC Quarter-finalist
Comic writer
Sloth on the run
www.liamquane.com
Michael Hubbard @yeoldemother.bsky.social Custodian of @musicOMH.com, {blank-or-blank} at The Guardian. Here for musics, (UK) politics, infrastructure geekery, and whatever else.
๐London | Same handle on Zucksites, &c., but meh to those
Frank Wynne @terribleman.com Irish literary translator, editor, writer, 2022 International Booker Chair. he/him/oi, you! ๐
Drew Gummerson @drewgum.bsky.social Writer of The Lodger, Me and Mickie James, Seven Nights at the Flamingo Hotel. Lambda Award Finalist. Leicestershire Short Story Prize winner. Saltburn - Feb 2025.
Indie Press supporter.
๐ณ๏ธโ๐๐ณ๏ธโ๐๐ณ๏ธโ๐๐ณ๏ธโ๐
MD ANT
https://linktr.ee/drewgum
Bob Johnston @bobjohnstonbooks.bsky.social 'Our Big Day' LGBTQ+ award-winning picturebook published 2022. Currently subbing agents w/ a gay novel for adults. Husband, dog lover, cat misser, biscuit eater, previously @gutterbookshop ... he/him ๐ฎ๐ช linktr.ee/bobjohnstonbooks
Luke Turner @luketurner.bsky.social Author: Men at War - Loving, Lusting, Fighting, Remembering 1939-1945 on British masculinity, sexuality & the cultural memory of WWII on W&N Books/Orion. First ๐ Out of the Woods, 2019. Co-founder: The Quietus. My stuff: https://linktr.ee/luketurner โ๏ธ๐ณ๏ธโ๐
Nell Stevens @nellstevens.bsky.social The Original (2025). Briefly, a Delicious Life.
nellstevens.com
Ryan Donovan @ryan-donovan.com Author | BROADWAY BODIES and QUEER APPROACHES IN MUSICAL THEATRE
Assistant Professor of Theater Studies | Duke University
ryan-donovan.com
R. O. Kwon แแ
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งแผ @rokwon.bsky.social nationally bestselling novels Exhibit & The Incendiaries โข co-edited Kink โข Lambda Literary Prize
www.ro-kwon.com
Aiden Heung @aidenheung.bsky.social Chinese poet, gay, reader, squash player, Poet at WashU, Assistant Poetry Editor of The Parentheses Journal. Winner of 2024 Levis Prize in Poetry from Four Way Books. Debut All There Is To Lose forthcoming 2026
Joshua Blackwood @joshuablackwood.bsky.social Horror novelist and curator of ghosts and other specters. ๐ฒPNW๐ฒ๐ณ๏ธโ๐ Tell your dog I said hi.
Elisa Stone Leahy @elisastoneleahy.com Peruvian-American author of middle grade books (TETHERED and MALLORY๐), library event specialist, mom to the coolest kids, vacuumer supreme for my scruffy dog ๐ณ๏ธโ๐๐ต๐ช
William Hussey @whusseyauthor.bsky.social Award-winning author of the SCOTT JERICHO thrillers (KILLING JERICHO; JERICHOโS DEAD; BURYING JERICHO) and YA novels, including THE BOY I LOVE, BROKEN HEARTS AND ZOMBIE PARTS, and THE OUTRAGE among others
https://linktr.ee/williamhusseyauthor
Andrew Wille @andrewwille.bsky.social ๏ฟผ๏ฟผReads, writes, edits, gardens, cooks. Natural history, nice people. Whippet person ๐๐ช๐บ๐น๐ฅฎ๐บ Also Andrew Wille Writing Studio
www.wille.org
https://linktr.ee/andrewwille
Hamza Jahanzeb (isn't here, contact via email) ๐ซ Kindly NO DM ๐ซ @hamzajahanzeb.co.uk ๐ The Rise & Rise of #ChappellRoan
๐ผ hamzajahanzeb.co.uk
๐ญ hamzajahanzeb.substack.com
๐ง info[@]hamzajahanzeb[dot]co[dot]uk
ใ Views own
David Hinchliffe Bradford @dbfreelance.co.uk Senior editor (print) Cycling Weekly
Curricular and extracurricular work here: dbfreelance.co.uk
Unruly eyes: tinyurl.com/BitBlind
๐Lewes, UK | ๐ต๐ธ ๐ณ๏ธโ๐
Jana M. Perkins, PhD @janajm.com ๐๏ธ host, @womenofletters.org
โ๏ธ conversations on work, writing, & professional success with the women shaping our cultural landscape
๐ croatian-canadian ๐ณ๏ธโ๐ in ๐ญ๐ท
๐ธ mostly on insta these days: @janajm
Jennifer Savran Kelly @jsavrankelly.bsky.social Debut novel ENDPAPERS (Algonquin 2023), writer, cat person, #AuthorsAgainstBookBans, #5amWritersClub, production editor at Cornell University Press, she/they | jennifersavrankelly.com
David Demchuk ๐ป (he/him) ๐ @daviddemchuk.com Nightmares for sale. ๐ณ๏ธโ๐๐จ๐ฆ Sunburst winner; Giller Prize, Amazon, Aurora & Shirley Jackson nominee. The Stone Garden. The Butcherโs Daughter. RED X. The Bone Mother. Gay/Queer. Cis. Old. No AI. https://daviddemchuk.com
Jamie West | Crime Fiction Author @jamiewestauthor.co.uk ๐ Crime Fiction Author
๐ก๏ธ CWA Dagger Award Shortlisted
๐ Rep: David Headley @dhhlitagency
๐ญ @hamiltonwestend
links.jamiewest.co.uk
Baris Cayli Messina @bariscaylimessina.com Academic/Writer
Books with
Cornell Univ Press, Univ California Press, Temple UP & McGill-Queen's UP.
Editor, International Social Science Journal (Wiley/UNESCO) & Sociology Compass
A gay man ๐ณ๏ธโ๐
www.bariscaylimessina.com
Layla McCay @laylamccay.bsky.social By day: Health Policy. By night: Author. Might post on either or neither.
Ugovalpad @ugovalpad.bsky.social รl/he/him Mexico ๐ฒ๐ฝ ๐ณ๏ธ๐ณ๏ธโ๐
Esp๐ช๐ธEng๐ฌ๐งDeu ๐ฉ๐ช
๐๏ธCDMXCity-Tulum๐ด
Comms consultant & new author/autor
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Books, Films, Photography, Cities
๐ซporn, hate, discusiones, politica
Mi ๐ https://shorturl.at/P4wUz
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Sarah Manvel @cairdiul.bsky.social Once I dreamed a cake recipe that could summon a bear, and then a bear appeared in my dream
Val Mcdermid @val-mcdemid01.bsky.social Author of Crime fiction ๐ซ
Juno Dawson @junodawson.bsky.social Author, screenwriter, dog lady.
Ryan Love @ryanjl7.bsky.social Fermanagh-born, Buckinghamshire-living ๐ณ๏ธโ๐ ๐ฎ๐ช ๐ ARTHUR AND TEDDY ARE COMING OUT is out now - https://linktr.ee/ryanjlove ๐ฅฐ
Richard Mirabella ๐ @rpmirabella.bsky.social Writer, reader, office potato. Author of Brother & Sister Enter the Forest. Lambda Award Finalist. NY Times Editors' Choice. Real human. No, really.
richardmirabellawriter.com
Insta: @rpmirabella
Dr Panti Bliss-Cabrera @pantibliss.bsky.social Performer, writer, speechifier, pub landlady, gender discombobulist
National Fucking Treasure
Ireland
Agent: Aoife Rice : pantibliss@gmail.com
Elias Jahshan @eliasjahshan.bsky.social Editor, THIS ARAB IS QUEER (2022) & THIS QUEER ARAB FAMILY (late 2025) via Saqi Books | ๐ฑ๐ง&๐ต๐ธ | Born/raised on Dharug, Gadigal & Gamaraigal lands (aka Sydney); now a Londoner | He/him | ุงููุงุณ ุฌูุดุงู
https://saqibooks.com/books/saqi/this-queer-arab-family/
Kay Whitlock @kwhitlock.bsky.social Writer. Activist. Co-author "Queer (In)Justice: The Criminalization of LGBT People in the United States"; "Considering Hate: Violence, Goodness, and Justice in American Culture"; and "Carceral Con: The Deceptive Terrain of Criminal Justice Reform."
David @davidbtn2.bsky.social Welsh, Brightonian, London librarian and writer (actively looking for a literary agent)
The G & Q in LGBTQ+ (he/him) ๐ณ๏ธโ๐๐ณ๏ธโโง๏ธ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ท๓ ฌ๓ ณ๓ ฟ
Daniel Fountain @danielfountain.bsky.social Senior Lecturer & Director of Postgrad Research in Art History at University of Exeter | Writer, Researcher, Artist and Curator | Queer art and visual culture | He/They๐ณ๏ธโ๐๐ณ๏ธโโง๏ธ
www.danielfountain.com
https://experts.exeter.ac.uk/37109-daniel-fountain
James A Lyons @jalwrites.bsky.social Author ๐ณ๏ธโ๐
EAST END BOYS AND WEST END GIRLS - An adult contemporary LGBTQ+ RomCom. OUT NOW!
Represented by Intersaga Literary Agency.
Elizabeth Fremantle @lizfremantle.bsky.social I wrote a book, QUEENS GAMBIT, they made a film, FIREBRAND
DISOBEDIENT on Artemisia Gentileschi โ HWA Gold Crown winner
SINNERS out now
Rep: Alice Lutyens at Curtis Brown
Londoner, dogs, films, Spurs, HWA ๐ณ๏ธโ๐
LinkTree: https://linktr.ee/lizfremantle
Stella Duffy @stellduffy.bsky.social Pฤkehฤ Londoner; Dr (not the medical kind), existential psychotherapist, supervisor, doctoral research in postmenopause; writer of 17 novels/70+ stories/15 plays, yoga for writing workshops; 2 x breast cancer; knee, hip, & some brain mended with metal