Ken Worpole @kgeorgew.bsky.social 
Laura Cumming @lauracummingart.bsky.social Art Critic The Observer. Critic of the Year 2024. Thunderclap - Book of 2024, @SaltireBook, Non-Fiction Winner @WritersPrize. On Chapel Sands, The Vanishing Man @ChattoBooks. Rep @pew_literary
Travis Elborough @improbableatlas.bsky.social modern romantiquarian author, commentator, compere, walker and photographer - my Elborough's Eye book column appears in The Idler magazine
Chris Emery @chrisemery.me Poet. Five collections from Arc and Salt, most recently Wonder (2025). Manchester-born, Irish citizen, living in Cromer. I publish other people’s books at Salt. Newsletter: chrisemery.me
Paul Kavanagh @kavcarter.bsky.social The Killing of a Bank Manager (Honest Publishing, 2011)
Iceberg (Honest Publishing, 2012)
Everybody is Interested in Pigeons (Sagging Meniscus Press, 2026)
Thunderstorm Bun @thunderstormbun.bsky.social 
Daniel Sumption @dansumption.bsky.social Pilgrim. Seeker. Struggling to exist in the 21st Century. I run @peakrillpress.bsky.social
Marie Phillips @mariephillips.bsky.social Writer of Gods Behaving Badly, Warhorses of Letters and more. This American Life contributor.
Free newsletter at mariepphillips.substack.com
Liam Bishop @liamhbishopwriting.bsky.social ✍️Writer from Leeds with bylines in Irish Times, LA Review of Books, TLS and many others.
🎧Curating the world’s most interesting writers on the Rippling Pages
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👨🏻⚕️Elsewhere, health researcher
https://tinyurl.com/Lbhealthbluesky
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
Chris Bardell @chrisbardell.bsky.social Systems guy. Music, cycling, camping, homebrewing, reading, writing, cooking, films, gigs. Bilingue anglais+français. Live in Norfolk, UK, EU.
Some fiction: https://chrisbardell.com/
Sophie Charara @sophiecharara.bsky.social freelance writer, former WIRED associate editor // she her // Mancunian in London, UK https://www.clippings.me/users/sophiecharara
John Coulthart @johncoulthart.com Artist, designer, occasional writer.
• Words: https://www.johncoulthart.com/feuilleton/
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Aaron Kent @godzillakent.bsky.social Working Class Poet/Writer | Publisher of @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social | The Working Classic (2023, the87press) | Awen Medal | Stroke Survivor | he/him | Agent: Kate Rizzo (Greene & Heaton)
Broken Sleep Books @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social Award winning indie publisher | Poetry | Essays | Fiction | Lay out your unrest | Widening access to the arts | Editor: @godzillakent.bsky.social | For reviews: stuart@brokensleepbooks.com | Founded: 2018
Website: brokensleepbooks.com
George Ttoouli @georgettoouli.co.uk Poet, gardener, teacher, editor, recovering academic. #Goodgym Barnet. Candidate, Barnet Green Party, Woodhouse ward.
www.georgettoouli.co.uk
Promoted by Joan Waterson on behalf of George Ttoouli (Barnet Green Party) both at PO Box 78066, London SE16 9GQ
Jonny @themaybepile.bsky.social Lapsed anthropologist, writer, poorly dressed film maker & Northumbrian separatist.
LCC municipal @lccmunicipal.bsky.social London County Council, Greater London Council, pre- and post-1965 boroughs in London (+ occasional forays outside of the capital). Municipal stuff from the past that lives on today. Oh, and new towns, shopping centres, infrastructure etc.
lccmunicipal.com
Iamrobhughes @iamrobhughes.bsky.social Common Reader. 
Cambridge Writers @cambswriters.bsky.social Cambridge Writers is a friendly and enthusiastic writing group. Some of us are published, some not yet, and some write for fun. Cambridge, UK.
Marc de Faoite @marcdefaoite.bsky.social Herbivorous open-water-swimming snowflake bookworm, b. 323.05 ppm. Irish in France. Writer/editor/translator. Work in in Honest Ulsterman, Minor Lit, Irish Times, Courrier International, Cormorant, Incubator, Eastlit, Jaggery, Mekong Review, Esquire ...
Nicholson Baker @nicholsonbaker.bsky.social Latest book: Finding a Likeness: How I Got Somewhat Better at Art. First book: The Mezzanine. https://linktr.ee/nicholsonbaker.
The Unhurried Reader 📚🦊🇺🇦🇬🇱 @theunhurriedreader.bsky.social Reader, writer, nature-lover, garden-potterer, history-dabbler, selenophile. Distracted by birds. 🐦⬛
theunhurriedreader.substack.com
@the_unhurried_reader on Instagram (yes, I know that's confusing).
#InvisibleIllnessVisibleLives
#Nordlichtberaubt
Turnpike Books @turnpikebooks.bsky.social Publisher of, mainly, classic Northern Irish writers and also of Barbara Comyns, Douglas Dunn, J.B. Priestley among others.
turnpikebooks.co.uk
Anne Denoon @annedenoon.bsky.social Crone, wastrel, lapsed (but twitching) novelist. Posts about art & lit.
Me: https://www.writersunion.ca/member/anne-denoon
My book: Back Flip, a novel about art & the 1960s: https://t.co/m7fQSOo6At or (with reviews) https://tinyurl.com/4dzwzpdp
VOID VOID VOID @burnyourbones.bsky.social autist artist typist anarchist and pylon enthusiast
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seeing an unbearable light at the edge of everything & trying to trap it in ink ѧ ѧ ᗗ
Jon Woolcott @jonwoolcott.bsky.social Author Real Dorset (Seren), The Tattooed Hills (Aurum, April 2026), editor Going to Ground, works Little Toller, editor The Clearing. Events/writing/buy: linktr.ee/jonwoolcott
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.
Angry Robot Books @angryrobotbooks.bsky.social Your favourite independent, genrefluid fiction publisher, bringing you the very best in SF, F & WTF!?
IG/X: @angryrobotbooks
Amanda Coe @amandacoe.bsky.social 
Sir Rants Alot @robvo.bsky.social Humor, news & memes, oh my!
VO Guy/Actor/Writer/Producer
"Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand." Mark Twain
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Roy Reads Anything @edgerat.bsky.social Fifth Business
BookTube channel: @#royreadsanything
Sean Coleman @colemandesign.bsky.social Designer, Illustrator, Curiouser
https://linktr.ee/ColemanDesign
Stuart Evers @stuartevers.bsky.social Writer, reviewer, Columbo enthusiast
Dan Lockton @danlockton.com Utrecht, NL + Norwich, UK
Prof of Design & Imagination, Norwich University of the Arts ⦿ Director, Institute for Sustainable Worlds https://sustainableworlds.org.uk ⦿ Design⸻imagination⸻climate⸻futures ⦿ http://imaginari.es ⦿ he/him ⦿ Not employer's views
Seán 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
Emma Kinsley @kinsleywrites.bsky.social Writer, editor, proofreader, and book nerd.
Specializing in romance, fantasy, speculative fiction, and more.
She/her. DMs currently closed. Watch this space!
Vincent O'Connell @vincentoconnell.co.uk Writer and film maker, here for distraction, information and (occasional) enlightenment.
www.vincentoconnell.co.uk
Line Stockford @linecaro.bsky.social Turkish poetry translator
Poet, writer
Cymraes she/they
Caroline Stockford
https://palewellpress.co.uk/bookstore/human-rights/wtwt/
Poetry translations: https://estoniacordfrock.wordpress.com/
Ali Hope 📚📚 @heavenalibooks.bsky.social Birmingham UK based book lover, former blogger, fan of 20th century women writers. Rheumatoid arthritis warrior. TV binger, jigsaw addict. Here mainly for the book talk. 📚📚
Chris Stokes @nisaccom.bsky.social 
Sara Catterall @scatterall.bsky.social Writer. MLIS. So many interests. She/her. Author of Amelia Bloomer: Journalist, Suffragist, Anti-Fashion Icon. Blog etc at saracatterall.com
Maylin @blithespirit4.bsky.social Canadian living in Liverpool, UK. Knitter, reader, hiker, lover of all textiles and the great outdoors. Once a bookseller, always a bookseller.
Sarah Matthews @sarahmatthews.bsky.social Reader, Braille tutor, interested in assistive tech, publishing and accessible art.
Trying to use this new place while totally blind so please be patient with me and add alt text to your photos
Storygraph: https://app.thestorygraph.com/profile/
Elizabeth Stokoe @lizstokoe.bsky.social Professor and Associate Vice President (Impact) at #LSE | Psychologist | Hon FBPsS | Hon Prof @lborouniversity.bsky.social | @IndependentSage.bsky.social Behaviour Group | Conversation Analyst #EMCA | she/her | own views | #AcademicSky
Malcolm Dixon @malcolmdixon59.bsky.social Writer of short stories in The London Magazine, Aesthetica & elsewhere, and (as F.M.A Dixon) the prizewinning Everywhere Street YA novels.
Chapbooks: 'Death in the Cathedral' and 'Testament' out now.
Triple Pushcart Prize nominee. Bootle boy. Evertonian.
DK @mrcottonsox.bsky.social 
Matthew Fox @mattfoxwriter.bsky.social THE LOVELY DARK is nominated for the Kirkus Prize 2026 | Kirkus ★ | Financial Times Best Children's Books '23 | Barnes & Noble Children's Book Award Shortlist '24 | No AI |🌱
linktr.ee/mattfoxwriter
Rosalind Brown @rosalindbrown.bsky.social First novel PRACTICE out now (Weidenfeld & Nicolson; Farrar, Straus & Giroux; Blessing Verlag; Plon). Represented by Tracy Bohan at the Wylie Agency. Most recent work in The Paris Review and Harper's.
rosalindbrown.com
Deirdre Shanahan @deirdre2.bsky.social Writer. Reader. Lots in between.
deirdreshanahan.com
'Caravan of the Lost and Left Behind' @ofmooseandmen.bsky.social
'Carrying Fire and Water' Splice Books
awards -@societyofauthors.bsky.social @wasafirimag.bsky.social
Mat @iamcyanblue.bsky.social Artist-researcher, lecturer, PhD student, uncanniness, neurodivergence. CSO, Quantels, Fairlights, “a ten-credit touch”
Ewan M Hannah @ewanmh.bsky.social Survivor from another millennium. Scottish living in Manchester. I like: reading, writing, old Hollywood, Gothic fiction, vintage clothes, Scottish literature, film noir, avant-garde art and writing...lots of other things...
Rebecca Summerling (she/her) @rlsummerling.bsky.social Writer and reader of the strange.
Assistant editor at Seize the Press. Associate editor at Violet Lichen Books
My stories can be found in The Dark, Nightjar Press, Interzone, ergot.
www.rlsummerling.com
Banner art by John Chrostek
Last of the disposable barbecues @bopterror.bsky.social Scaling the North Face store
Graham Mort @grahammort.bsky.social Poet, short fiction writer, essayist, writer BBC drama. Emeritus Prof Lancaster University; Extraordinary Prof University Western Cape; National HE Teaching Fellow. Eric Gregory Award, Bridport & Edge Hill Prizes. Photography, blues & jazz enthusiast.
S.P. Miskowski @spmiskowski.bsky.social writer (she/her)
Danielle Svetcov, LGR Literary Agency
Simon Scott @mrmarches.bsky.social Just a random walker 
Kiran @ktrivv.eurosky.social Leeds United supporter from Ayrshire working in sustainability. Living in london. Love to enjoy normal hobbies such as football and board games with my friends and family.
Pareidolia @pareidolia.bsky.social Funny faces, quirks, and humor.
Account operated by Paolette (Frenchie adopted by the US in the beautiful days of Obama presidency)
✊ #Impeach #BringBackDecency
After Octavian @afteroctavian.bsky.social Sintesa. Bibliophile. Lieder Enthusiast. Operavore. Balletomane. Gourmand. Oenophile. Eavesdropper Extraordinaire. She/Her They/Them
Mathew Lyons @mathewlyons.bsky.social Writer, historian. FRHistS. Recent work: History Today, The Spectator, Slightly Foxed, New Humanist, Engelsberg Ideas.
John-Paul Flintoff @jp.flintoff.org Writer and artist.
Portraits:
Flintoff.org/contain-multitudes
Latest book:
Flintoff.org/speccy-breakdown
🗞️ ex FT Magazine writer and editor. Bylines: Guardian, Observer, Sunday Times
Agent: Jaime Marshall
Signal: jpflintoff.11
Benjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.social America's Copy Editor®
author of the New York Times/IndieBound bestseller Dreyer's English and Stet! (the game!) • Random House copy chief/managing editor (ret.) • he/him/his
benjamindreyer.com
Daniel Kennedy @fliglman.bsky.social Washed-up translator
Anthony @timesflow.bsky.social Rootless cosmopolitan | Reading wildly | 'Obscure enough to be left in the sweetest of solitudes.' — De Quincey
https://timesflowstemmed.com
Daniel Tunnard @danieltunnard.bsky.social Writer and translator from Buenos Aires, Stockport and Sheffield, and a bit of Concepción del Uruguay. I am the 41st-best Scrabble player in the world in Spanish, which isn't all that much. I have a wife, a dog, and a daughter, in order of appearance.
thethinkingthread @thethinkingthread.bsky.social 
Paul Leyland @paul51.bsky.social Insect photographer & bibliophile
@sootyfangirl.bsky.social @sootyfangirl.bsky.social 
Christopher Stanley @stanleycj42.bsky.social out-with the Law in-sight of Justice
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/
Ian Curtin @iancurtin.bsky.social 
Cody R Brown @codyrbrown.bsky.social PhD @ UBC English, sf and ecocriticism, Luddite, walking the laneways of the Lower Mainland of BC
Rick Adams 🇵🇸🇸🇩 @rickadams82.bsky.social MD ANT🥇Music and book lover. Former secondary school English teacher of 13 years and former mental health OT. "Between jobs." Current Dad of 3 maddening and wonderful young children. Scribbler of things that I hope might become something someday. 
Neal Romanek @nromanek.bsky.social Founder of publishing company ¡AU! & media biz journalist of many years - plus sustainability. Used to write for the pictures. Author of scifi swashbuckler SKIES OF VENUS & graphic novel BOUDICCA.
Dayton to L.A. to London
https://linktr.ee/nealromanek
Steve Rydz @steverydz.com 
Morag Rose @thelrm.bsky.social Walking artist-academic-activist The LRM (Loiterers Resistance Movement). #Psychogeography, Vegan, Crip, #OurIrwell. Maker of Creative Mischief. Lover of public space, sad songs, DIY maps + Doctor Who. She/they The Feminist Art of Walking 20/10/25 (Pluto)
Johnny Mains @johnnymains.co.uk Horror anthologist.
"This generation's Hugh Lamb" - Mike Mignola
"A valuable man" - Stewart Lee
AuDHD.
Got the morbs.
Les Fugitives @lesfugitivespress.bsky.social Contemporary literary fiction & non-fiction translated from the French. Modern classics and English originals.
Subscribe to Les Fugitives (UK readers only) https://www.lesfugitives.com/offers/subscription/2025subscription-npkna
Eleanor Holmes | Eliot North @eleanorholmes.bsky.social Previously @eliot_north on Twitter/X. ND mum-doctor-writer of poetry & prose. Living in Valencian Country, working as NHS GP Weston-super-mare.
#Moth Hybrid Mini-Book Ethel Zine - second edition 🚀 July 2026
Pubs below 👇
https://linktr.ee/eleanorholmes
Nick Langley @nicklangley.bsky.social Retired freelance journo & editorial consultant* to conservation NGOs. Badly healed achilles tendon; now e-bike & urban rambling. Allotment, cautiously. Big reader.
*Facilitating stakeholder engagement by correcting grammar & spelling.
Will edit for food.
Paul M. Cray @pmc.bsky.social 'A plain, unvarnished Preston man.' Permanent resident alien in Seattle, Wash. Writer, AGI researcher, wine industry professional. Interests: books, futurology, historiographic metafiction, sf, technoeconomic paradigm shifts, the Technological Singularity
@robinsonmd22.bsky.social @robinsonmd22.bsky.social 
Lucie Elven @lucieelven.bsky.social 
Marcus Silcock @postpran.bsky.social Surreal absurd stories. Irish. Author of Dream Dust (Broken Sleep Books). Recent stories in Maudlin House, Broken Antler, Bending Genres, Your Impossible Voice, and others. Co-edits Surreal-Absurd Mercurius Mag. www.nevermindthebeasts.com
Dave C @duckpondsreview.bsky.social Retired and reading quite a lot in a quiet corner of Australia.
Martin Roberts @lordfroggy.bsky.social Former Jack of all trades, master of none. Past victories include several short stories punished & runner-up for the BBC award nominee (short film) @ the 17th Birmingham International Film and Television Festival. 78 rpm slowed to 33.3 by Fibromyalgia.
Julian Girdham @sccenglish.bsky.social Thinking, Writing, Reading, (English) Teaching.
https://www.juliangirdham.com
The Fortnightly newsletter is now at 200+ editions: https://www.juliangirdham.com/the-fortnightly.
https://linktr.ee/juliangirdham
#edchatie
Selfy Stories @selfystories.bsky.social What is the self? Is it a story that we tell ourselves? In this podcast, we turn to philosophy & literature for answers.
🎙️ScarlettBaron + AliceHarberd
https://open.spotify.com/show/2ae2RQYLbLop9oe10huOvp?si=6df3218256a24352
Adam Stock @sztockmann.bsky.social Book nerd interested in utopia/dystopia, SF & modernism. Senior Lecturer in English Lit. Currently thinking about deserts (& usually also dessert) ✡️🌈He/him
Josephine Galvin @josephinegalvin.bsky.social 
Women Writers Network @womenwritersnet.bsky.social Supporting and promoting #WomenWriters. On insta at womenwritersnetwork and Twitter (X) @womenwritersnet.
LeftLion Magazine Nottingham @leftlion.bsky.social Where Nottingham Meets.
Shouting arts and culture in the home of Robin Hood since 2003.
Christopher Pittard @christopherpittard.bsky.social Academic, Course Leader in English Literature at University of Portsmouth (but posts are my own, mind). Victorian literature, detective fiction, Arthur Conan Doyle, Dickens, Wilkie Collins. Next book: *Arthur Conan Doyle* (Liverpool UP, 2028).
Judy Birkbeck @judybirkbeck.bsky.social Writer. Novel: Behind the Mask is Nothing publd. by Holland House Books, + many short stories in litmags. Passionate about wildlife gardening. judybirkbeck.co.uk
peter remote morrison @remotecore.bsky.social Haverin: 40 years of GSFWC. October 2026.
Editors: Milton, Morrison & Valentine
He/Him. GSFWC. WGB. Glasgow.
(banner by Jenni Coutts)
https://linktr.ee/remotecore
Ian Prince @saposcat.bsky.social York