Georgia Reads @georgiarybanks.bsky.social Reading books from around the world.
Filling sketchbooks. Riding bikes. Lifting heavy. Walking dogs. Watching sport.
Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social NYT opinion writer, Slate Money co-host, Dem messaging consultant, former EIC The New York Observer, Dealbreaker founder and Gawker founding editor. Brooklyn via Bama. Rednexican. Striver with no chill.
https://linktr.ee/elizabethspiers
Read Japanese Literature @readjapaneseliterature.com a podcast about Japanese fiction + some of its best works | posting updates on new Japanese fiction | apologies for the typos | blocking new follows that look like bots | DON’T buy or read AI translations | all stories are political
Public Books @publicbooks.bsky.social Public Books is an online magazine of ideas, arts, and scholarship. www.publicbooks.org
Melanie Ward MP @melanieward.bsky.social Labour Member of Parliament for Cowdenbeath & Kirkcaldy. UK Government Minister for Scotland.
Archipelago Books @archipelagobooks.bsky.social a non-profit press devoted to contemporary and classic international literature
Radz Pandit @radzpandit.bsky.social Avid reader, book reviewer & amateur book photographer. I write about books on my blog Radhika’s Reading Retreat. Love art and travel too.
Website: https://readersretreat2017.wordpress.com
Also on: linktr.ee/radzpandit
Deborah @deborahzafer.bsky.social Reading, writing, rabbits 🐇 ✡️
Director of European Writers Salon @saloneurope.bsky.social
London
www.deborahzafer.com
https://substack.com/@deborahzafer
@cecilecottenet.bsky.social @cecilecottenet.bsky.social Professor of American Studies in Provence, #bookhistory, US literature, #histoiredulivre 📚🇫🇷🇺🇸, literary agents
Verity Holloway @verityholloway.bsky.social Strange fiction, weird history. Lost member of the PRB. Marfan syndrome. Will-o’-the-wisp. Victorians, folklore, bad medicine. THE OTHERS OF EDENWELL and CHEER THE SICK out now. Non-fiction in @helleborezine.bsky.social. 🦇🖋️🇬🇮
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.
Kenan Malik @kenanmalik.bsky.social Writer & Observer columnist. Latest book: Not So Black and White (Hurst). “Unsettles the pieties of contemporary race-talk” - Paul Gilroy. “A work of immense scholarship” – Jon Bloomfield. Website: https://kenanmalik.com/
Tanjil Rashid @tanjilrashid.bsky.social Culture Editor, The New Statesman
The New Statesman @newstatesman1913.bsky.social Politics, geopolitics, economics, books, culture, ideas, science, history, tech, data...
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Peigi MacKillop @peigibheag.bsky.social Heritage, archaeology, cooking, art, fashion, Gaelic, Berneray. Ex-librarian, ex Oracle admin. I have my books, and my poetry to protect me. 💙 NHS
Melissa Combs @melissacombs.bsky.social Resist 💙 Trad pub author, devel editor, avid reader, adjunct, MA in English & creative writing. I live to travel. Advocate for the blind. COLTS fan. Optimistic at heart. 💙 She/Her #author #reader #horrorlit #PNR #disability #blind #writing #Democracy
Trevor Berrett @mookse.bsky.social Books and Film | The Mookse and the Gripes Podcast with @bibliopaul.bsky.social | 2017 Best Translated Book Award Judge
Asian Review of Books @asianreviewofbooks.bsky.social Now published by the @asianaffairs.bsky.social Royal Society for Asian Affairs, the Asian Review of Books is a dedicated pan-Asia book review publication. Read us at asianreviewofbooks.com
Hart Cunningham @hart28.bsky.social ‘28 Progressive Dem candidate Hart28.com
1) End genocide globally
2) Pardon 100k protestors
3) Nuremberg type trials
4) Free Healthcare for every citizen
5) END fascism/zionism
Alison loves stories @ohdiglib.bsky.social An eclectic reader looking for new perspectives & unusual reads. Real life librarian and general word nerd who enjoys frolicing in the linguistic playground.
Longer thoughts:
https://alisontcucchetti.wordpress.com/
Arthur Mandal @arthurmandal.bsky.social Brit/US writer of uncanny fiction. Best Small Fictions 2025. Over 40 stories in The Barcelona Review, LITRO, Southeast Review, The Forge, The Los Angeles Review and others. @nightjarpress Based in Eugene, Oregon (but grew up in UK). www.arthurmandal.com
Frank Mols (PhD) @fmols.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Political Science, University of Queensland, researching leadership, followership, populist parties, voter attitudes and political behaviour.
https://scholar.google.com.au/citations?user=GwUV0YAAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao
Mélanie Marron ⚜️🇨🇦 @melmarron.bsky.social Communications, science, politique, lecture, photo, nature et beaucoup de thé.
J'ai l'EM depuis 2023
#encephalomyelitemyalgique #mecfs
Stefan Siebert @stefansiebert.bsky.social Professor at University of Glasgow in beautiful Scotland. Views obviously my own and not medical advice or representative of my employers. Hate injustice and worried about the future of healthcare (and humanity)! ☮️
Colson Whitehead @colsonwhitehead.com Release the bats
Jim MacMillan @jimmacmillan.com Journalist, educator, researcher and social innovator. Student of peace and justice. CMAT superfan. Recently relocated to Cork. Born in Boston. Shaped by 35 years in Philadelphia and one in Baghdad. JimMacMillan.com | Signal: JRM.353 | He/him | Pax et Lux
Sarah Ba @sarahbia.bsky.social Northerner, book hoarder, foreign language enthusiast, and unabashed cat lady.
Also, local gov officer, disability rights activist, trade unionist, and Green 💚
European Medical Journal @emjreviews.com #1 open access destination for healthcare professionals globally.
🔗 emjreviews.com
Dipika Mummery @dipikam.bsky.social Writing a novel. Stories pub. by Comma, Arachne, Tasavvur, Fox & Windmill, Fly on the Wall. She/her. Manchester, UK. https://linktr.ee/dipikam
First Novel Prize @firstnovelprize.bsky.social Writing competition for unpublished and independently published novelists. Entries close on the 31st of May. Judged by Sally Williamson (Transworld) and Hayley Steed (Janklow & Nesbit). Organised by the Literary Studio. Bloomsbury, London
firstnovel.co.uk
The Nation Magazine @thenation.com Founded by abolitionists in 1865. Committed to progressive journalism. Subscribe: http://subscriptions.thenation.com.
Jackie Curtis @jcurtisart.bsky.social A printmaker based in Somerset producing original innovative monoprints, collagraphs, linocuts and woodblocks. Walking pathways taking a lot of photographs.
The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com Weeknights 11/10c on Comedy Central and Paramount+
North House Press @northhousepress.bsky.social North House Press publishes a blend of Scottish fiction and non-fiction, introducing new voices and restoring to the public attention overlooked writing from the past.
www.northhousepress.co.uk
Charles Turner @kafkaboots.bsky.social 
Jérôme Bouchaud @jeromebouchaud.bsky.social Astier-Pécher Literary Agency. Éditions Jentayu. Lyonnais d'entre-mondes.
Melville House @melvillehouse.bsky.social An independent publisher based in Brooklyn, US and London, UK. https://linktr.ee/MelvilleHouse
Brian Groom @groomb.bsky.social Ex-Financial Times Assistant Editor. Ex-editor Scotland on Sunday. Author of 'Made in Manchester' and 'Northerners: A History'. 'These Isles' due Feb 2026.
Sarah Evans @sarahevansart.bsky.social Welsh artist
Starring Flash Evans, Barry and Walter from Port Talbot
https://sarahevanswelshartist.com
Katherine Pickett, Editor (she/her) @popediting.bsky.social I help writers achieve their dreams of publication. Owner of POP Editorial Services LLC. Award-winning author, #editor, writing coach, workshop leader, avid cyclist, amateur painter. #Resist
blog: www.thePOPnewsletter.com
Editing: www.POPediting.net
Hyphen @hyphenonline.com hyphenonline.com | The leading media platform on Muslim life in the UK and Europe
Stuart Elden @stuartelden.bsky.social Political theorist, political geographer, now mainly write on the history of ideas. Professor at University of Warwick, work on territory, Foucault, Lefebvre and new project on Indo-European thought in C20th France. https://progressivegeographies.com
Bloomsbury Literary Studies & Creative Writing @bloomsburylit.bsky.social Book news from the Bloomsbury Literary Studies & Creative Writing team in London and New York. 📚 Home of the Object Lessons series.
Explore our latest titles below! ⬇️
bloomsbury.com/literarystudies
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
Darren Chetty @darrenchetty.bsky.social Welsh Indian South African Dutch Londoner. PhD in Philosophy of Education. Antiracist Dialogic Pedagogy. Children's Books. Teaching & Writing.
Rep: Rachel Mann, CAA https://www.darrenchetty.com/ https://linktr.ee/DarrenChetty
Bloomsbury Books UK @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social We make books! An independent publishing house with authors who have won the Nobel, Pulitzer and Booker Prizes. ✨📚
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
Dymphna Flynn @dymphnaflynn.bsky.social Development producer Pier Productions. Ex BBC Radio 4 producer. Former Costa Prize judge. Love to read in Brighton, London and the South of France
Jon McGregor @jonmcgregor.bsky.social I write novels and stories . (Recentlyish: Lean Fall Stand.)
There is a Substack: https://classnotesbyjonmcgregor.substack.com/
Also learning Dutch - kom maar bij mij en nederlands met me spreken, alstublieft x
Evalyn Lee @evalynlee.bsky.social Poet, Alumna of @CBSNews @60Minutes @BBCWorld @FaberAcademy. Shortlisted by @bridportprize.bsky.social Love @britishlibrary & @VanguardRead #amwriting #poetry #visual #journal #travellingwithdevices 🧶 #crochet #StitchingTogether for the #CommonGood
The Society of Authors @societyofauthors.bsky.social Empowering authors since 1884. The largest UK union for writers, illustrators and literary translators. #societyofauthors #humanauthored
Tribune @tribunemagazine.bsky.social Socialist since 1937. 🌹
Laura Webster @lauraewebster.bsky.social Editor of The National 🏴
Alasdair Pettinger @bulldozia.com Words | history | sounds. Author, editor, archivist. Autistic. Latchy student of Gàidhlig, Cymraeg, Kreyòl & stringed instruments. Book: Frederick Douglass and Scotland, 1846. Researching revolutionary slogans. North Pembrokeshire. www.bulldozia.com
Samantha eff Jones @sjonespoet.bsky.social Earth scientist. Poet. Editor. Arctic. Geohumanities. Black Canadian & white settler. Books: Attic Rain (NeWest) & I'll Get Right On It! (Roseway). Greyhound enthusiast. Speaks/Parle/Puhun English, mal français, vähän suomea. https://linktr.ee/JonesYYC
WritersMosaic @writersmosaic.bsky.social An online magazine and developmental resource reflecting the changing reality of contemporary Britain, from its past and into its future. www.writersmosaic.org.uk. 
Jenny Hamilton @readingtheend.bsky.social she/her. southern geek feminist, genre critic, and scholar of boning. bylines at NYT Book Review, Booklist, Strange Horizons, Lady Business, Reactor. author of SFF romance column Ships in the Night for Reactor.
Abe El-Raheb / Editor & Writer @eldashraheb.bsky.social https://www.abeelraheb.com
Egyptian-Irish-American
Editor and Writer (WGA West)
Desperately trying to learn Spanish
We are such stuff as dreams are made on.
Sam Garvan @garvansam.bsky.social Poet. Reader. Plums, raspberries, apricots. Recently in Asymptote, New Welsh Review, Finished Creatures, Cyphers. Troubadour Prize. Jt runner-up Keats-Shelley prize. He/him.
The Quietus @thequietus.com Black Sky Thinking since 2008.
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Peter Nguyen @dptbirder.bsky.social Vietnamese-American he/him
Brain physio🧠, avian druid🧙♂️, photon catcher📷, cat dad🐈
📍Orange County, California, USA
All bird thoughts and photos are mine
Life list: 584 Lesser Frigatebird
Socials: @dptbirder
Filmhouse Edinburgh @filmhouseedinburgh.bsky.social Great films deserve a great home. Our doors are open, daily from 10am!
https://www.filmhouse.org.uk/home
Nicole Gratton 🎨🖌️📷🇨🇦 @nicolegratton.eurosky.social Ici pour partager l’art, la photographie et la nature sous toutes ses formes / Here to share art, photography and nature in all it’s forms.
Les photos et l’art sont de moi sauf pour les reposts. No AI
Salt Books @saltpublishing.com One of the UK's leading indie publishers. High-impact fiction and brand-led non-fiction. Beautiful books you won’t forget. Available in all good bookshops.
Jo Lloyd but jolly 🌍🐎 @jolloyds.bsky.social Writer
The Earth Thy Great Exchequer Ready Lies (UK)
Something Wonderful (US)
Winner BBC National Short Story Award #bbcnssa
O Henry
Stories in Zoetrope, Southern Review, Ploughshares, BBSS, &&
She/her
Ally
ALCS @alcs.co.uk We're the Authors' Licensing & Collecting Society. Nobody else in the world does exactly what we do. We've been championing writers and making sure they get paid for secondary uses of their work since 1977
www.alcs.co.uk
Dominique Walker @dominiquewalker.bsky.social Programme Officer - eResources with the Scottish Library and Information Council (SLIC)
Developing a single digital platform and a national e-resources collection for Scotland's public libraries.
https://scottishlibraries.org/
Juliet Wilson (Crafty Green Poet) @craftygreenpoet.bsky.social Adult Education Tutor, Poet, Short Story writer, Wildlife Surveyor, Conservation Volunteer. Edinburgh, Scotland
Blog: http://craftygreenpoet.blogspot.com
Etsy: https://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/CraftyGreenMagpie
Substack: https://craftygreenpoet.substack.com
Merrydholl @maryeilmicdom.bsky.social Health #MECFS, sport, history & current affairs, puzzles, language, law & humour #Celtic 🍀 #LifeWriting at
merrydholl.wordpress.com 🏴
205TF @205tf.bsky.social TF, two letters that stand for Type Foundry and Typographie Française (French Typography).
https://www.205.tf/
Bulb Culture Collective @bulbculture.bsky.social
SUBMISSIONS OPEN!
online lit space ○ light bulb bunch ○ send us your previously published writing
Editors: L.M. Cole & Jared Povanda
https://www.bulbculturecollective.com/chandelier-zine
Billy Kay @billykayscot.bsky.social Scriever/Braidcaster in Scots, English, an a wheen ither leids forbye.
Writer/Broadcaster in English, Scots and a few other languages as well. Passionate about Scottish independence, my wife, my weans and grandweans. Oh, and Scotland & Dundee United.
Scott Jarvie @scottjarvie.bsky.social Assistant professor at San Jose State studying the ambiguities: English ed, curriculum, affect, teacher experience.
Read my work here: https://sjsu.academia.edu/ScottJarvie & here: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Scott-Jarvie
Susan McCreery @susanmccreery.bsky.social Writer. ALL THE UNLOVED out now. Retired proofreader (90 issues!) for Australian Geographic. Still work for trade publishers. Freediver. Ocean, flowers, movies, birds, books, cats, silliness. Thirroul/Dharawal, Australia.
susanmccreery.com.au
Nina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social Archaeologist | Permanent Representative of the Director, Archäologisches Landesmuseum Baden-Württemberg | Adjunct lecturer State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart | Private account, views are mine 🖖
Jane Alexander @janealexander.bsky.social Author, The Flicker Against the Light, A User's Guide to Make-Believe, The Last Treasure Hunt. https://linktr.ee/janealexander. Teach CW @ UoE. She/her. janealexander@net
Clare Bogen @clarebot.bsky.social Publicity Director, Fitzcarraldo Editions
Sometimes football, always cats.
Max Cairnduff @maxcairnduff.bsky.social Repairer of Reputations.
Rebecca Salazar Leon @rsalazar.bsky.social haunted swamp femme, PhD // author of sulphurtongue (2021) & antibody (2025) // (she/they) 🇨🇴🤎🇵🇸
Dr Durre Shahwar @durreshahwar.bsky.social Writer, artist, researcher. PhD in Autofiction & Pakistani-Welsh identity. Editor: GATHERING (2024) @404ink.bsky.social. Rep'd by @nurnbergagency.bsky.social. Cardiff/South London based.
Robert Louis Stevenson @rlstevenson.bsky.social News and snippets from the editors of the New Edinburgh Edition of the works of Robert Louis Stevenson (Edinburgh University Press)- D Martin McCallion @devilgate.org
AQEM - Association québécoise de l'encéphalomyélite myalgique @aqem.bsky.social L’AQEM vise l'avancement de la connaissance, de la reconnaissance de l' #EMSFC du mieux-être des #paEM | #Canada #Quebec | www.aqem.ca | IG/X @aqem_sfc
#EncephalomyeliteMyalgique #MyalgicEncephalomyelitis #MECFS #pwME #CovidLongue #CovidLong #LongCovid
Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social Journalist, lawyer, NYT-bestselling Trump and Musk biographer, songwriter (Hounds, The Rangers), former CNN & BBC analyst, retired journalism prof.
👤: sethabramson.net/bio
⚖️: sethabramson.substack.com
🕹: retrostack.substack.com
🎶: houndsmusic.substack.com
Modern Poetry in Translation @mptmagazine.bsky.social Ted Hughes' and Daniel Weissbort's international poetry translation magazine. Edited by Janani Ambikapathy.
modernpoetryintranslation.com
Louise Soraya Black @louisesblack.bsky.social Author. Reader. British-Iranian living in Ibiza and London. 📚POMEGRANATE SKY (2010), THE WATER GARDEN (2021), DARKNESS FALLS IN JAKARTA (2024). Winner of the Virgina Prize for Fiction 2009. Rep’d by @megancarrollagent.bsky.social @watsonlittle.bsky.social
Kit de Waal @kitdewaal.com Optimist, writer, swearer. common person. Co-founder Big Book Weekend with @MollyFlatt. Proud Primadonna. Professor, University of Leicester. FRSL. Photo by Paul Chambers. No DMs please. To email use contact@kitdewaal.com
Eshani Surya @eshanisurya.bsky.social debut novel RAVISHING 💄💉 ✨ out now from Roxane Gay Books/Grove Atlantic | disabled & chronically ill | philly-based | surya means sun ☀️ | eshani.surya@gmail.com
https://linktr.ee/eshanisurya
Robert Sheppard @robertsheppard.bsky.social Poet, critic of recent formally innovative poetry & poetics, emeritus prof at Edge Hill, and all that follows. Books from Shearsman, KFS, Salt, Broken Sleep, Palgrave, LUP, & all that follow. Blog: www.robertsheppard.blogspot.com
Rémi Forte @rmfrt.com Poetic Program, Typographic System
https://www.rmfrt.com/
Emma Bolden @emmabolden.bsky.social Just trying to put words together. God Elegy forthcoming from BOA Editions 2028. The Tiger and the Cage: A Memoir of a Body in Crisis (Soft Skull), House Is an Enigma (Bull City). TMI in your inbox here: https://substack.com/@emmabolden
Jonathan Herring @jonathanherring.bsky.social Academic Lawyer. Eater of beetroot and rhubarb
The Bridport Prize @bridportprize.bsky.social 📝 Worldwide creative writing comp
📝 Over £20K prize pot
📝 Alumni inc Kate Atkinson
📝 Honorary Patron Kit de Waal
📝 Raises funds for Bridport Arts Centre
The views of contributors do not reflect the views of The Bridport Prize.
bridportprize.org.uk
Rebecca Traister @rtraister.bsky.social Journalist, New York Magazine; author, Good & Mad, All the Single Ladies. Maine, New York, Philadelphia. I am on a book leave till fall 2025. I do have a substack. 
San Alland (they/San) @san-alland.bsky.social Writer, artist, curator. Latest publication: Sore Loser...on queer disabled grief. www.blissfultimes.ca
No DMs; locked out.
(Photo: me masked; white person, short hair, smiling. Banner: Free Falasteen sign on a bookshelf)