DA Children's Book Agency @da-childrens.bsky.social Your words, our passion! ✨ We are Clare Wallace, Becca Langton, Kristina Egan, Lorna Hemingway, Lucy Irvine, Chloe Davis, Kat Lenahan and Maleeha Mir
http://www.darleyandersonchildrens.com
Catherine Clarke @cfnv.bsky.social Teacher of English | ECT | Particularly interested in Modernism and Shakespeare
Lucy Irvine @lucyirvine93.bsky.social Literary agent at PFD (children’s, YA, SFF) | My personality is 90% yelling about fictional characters | 🏴🏳️🌈(she/her)
Charlotte Tomson @charlottetomson.bsky.social Teacher. MA Writing for Children. Golden Egg WYSCN. Divides time between reality and escapades in MG fiction. Lives with one family, two guinea pigs and a very demanding cheese plant.
Michelle Kass Associates Ltd @michellekassagency.bsky.social We are a team of four who love film, books and stories in all forms.
A Soho film & literary agency representing a wonderfully eclectic bunch. Founded in 1990
Jaya Saxena @jayasaxena.com Founder-Owner of @weareravenous.com
Series Editor at Best American Food and Travel Writing
Queens, NY
she/her
Tips to jaya@weareravenous.con
Artellus Ltd @artellusltd.bsky.social International Literary Agency: fiction, non-fiction and everything in-between. 
Jon Curzon @joncurzon.bsky.social Literary Agent @ Artellus 
Kathryn Foxfield (she/they) @kathrynfoxfield.bsky.social Author of creepy MG & YA books. Latest books: GETTING AWAY WITH MURDER (YA) and REVENGE OF THE KILLER WORM (MG). Agent: Chloe Seager
kara a. kennedy @karaaislinn.bsky.social author of I WILL NEVER LEAVE YOU and other sad, spooky, sapphic stories • rep: chloe seager • she/her
https://linktr.ee/karaaislinn
Laura Jordan @laurakatiej.bsky.social Author • Queer voice • Repped by Chloe Seager at Madeleine Milburn • Lover of cats. https://linktr.ee/LauraKatieJordan
Claire Hatcher-Smith @clairehatchersmith.bsky.social MG Author/Speech Therapist
The Mizzy Mysteries
(Feb 2025 @farshorebooks Aug 2025 @tundrabooks)
Rep'd by Chloe Seager @ Madeleine Milburn
#neurodivergent #downsyndromeally
Robert Mann @robbiemann.bsky.social Writer/Bookseller
REP: Chloe Seager from Madeline Milburn
Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social Believe in yourself! Work hard, never give up & anything's possible! OR: Kick back, relax & aim low: You'll never be disappointed...😜
Allen & Unwin Aotearoa NZ @allenandunwinnz.bsky.social A vibrant, innovative and multiple award-winning publisher in Aotearoa. NZ home of Faber & Faber, Swift, Profile, Canongate, Atlantic, Granta. https://linktr.ee/allenandunwinnz
Rachael King @rachaelking70.bsky.social Writer of novels & other stuff from NZ. MG novel The Grimmelings and YA Song of the Saltings (“Horse girl folk horror”) out in Aus, NZ, UK & Nth America. Secrets at Red Rocks TV adaptation out NZ, Aus & US. https://www.rachael-king.com Band Pic: J Ganley
Melissa Welliver - TO THE DEATH available to pre-order NOW! @melliver.bsky.social YA Speculative Author | Rep: Lucy Irvine PFD | Writer of YA Dystopia | TO THE DEATH out with Hachette Children's Group March 2026 | Co-Host of The Chosen Ones and Other Tropes podcast | she/her
Amber Caraveo @ambercaraveo.bsky.social 😻 Literary agent at Skylark Literary - www.skylark-literary.com. Loves sunny days, folklore, children’s books, YA books, all books - and dancing! (She/her)
Clare Pearson @clarepearson.bsky.social Literary agent, once an editor. Parent of Gen Zers. Occasional visitor here but aiming to follow back. https://linktr.ee/ClarePearson
Orla Owen @orlaowenwriting.bsky.social Author of The Lost Thumb, PAH, Christ On A Bike | Longlisted Dublin Literary Award 2025 | A Circle Of Strangers coming Spring 2027 with Bluemoose Books | Rep: Susan Armstrong at C&W | Website: www.orlaowen.com
John-Paul Stonard @johnpaulstonard.com Writer
New book: THE WORST EXHIBITION IN THE WORLD, DEGENERATE ART, 1937, out now 🚀
Guppy Books @guppybooks.bsky.social Guppy Books is a small but mighty award-winning independent publisher of children’s fiction, producing the very best books for young readers. Based in Oxford, UK.
Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social Dad, husband, President, citizen. barackobamabooks.com
Erratum Press @erratumpress.bsky.social Publishing the international avant-garde (EIC @ansgarallen.bsky.social)
https://www.erratumpress.com/
Colwill and Peddle @colwillandpeddle.bsky.social Drawing on our years of experience in publishing, bookselling and agenting we’re focused on finding new voices and untold stories, helping authors turn their ideas into books and supporting them at each point in their writing career.
Stephen King @stephenking.bsky.social Writer
Troika Books @troikabooks.bsky.social We are a small independent press passionate about publishing poetry, picture books and gripping fiction for children of all ages.
www.troikabooks.com/
SAM BLAKE @samblakebooks.bsky.social No 1 bestselling Irish crime writer (adult & YA) 💙📚
Chair Society of Authors, views my own.
Agent: Simon Trewin RIP
https://linktr.ee/SamBlakeBooks
Michelle Bailat-Jones @mbailatj.bsky.social novelist/translator/reader, here for the sharpened pencils, books & writing talk, for all things language and foliage, for all the shiny things & shadows. (Eng, Fr, 日本語, Ital) Rep'd by Simon Trewin.
www.michellebailatjones.com
Joanna Moult @joannamoult.bsky.social Literary Agent at Skylark Literary, a specialist children's and YA literary agency. Always on the look-out for something great to read. 📚
Trying not to drink too much tea.
https://www.skylark-literary.com/
#ukkidlit #kidlituk
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
Elizabeth Baines @elizabethbaines.bsky.social Writer of short stories, novels, plays.
http://www.elizabethbaines.co.uk
Latest publication: Five Different Stories About One Thing (Confingo). https://www.confingopublishing.uk/product-page/five-different-stories-about-one-thing-by-elizabeth-baines
Bernie McGill @berniemcgill.bsky.social Writer. Writing Fellow with Royal Literary Fund. Mentor at Irish Writers' Centre. Rep'd by Aitken Alexander. Winner of the 2023 Edge Hill Prize for This Train is For, available at https://noalibis.com/product/this-train-is-for-signed-paperback-edition/
Fictive Dream @fictivedream.bsky.social Fictive Dream, the online #litmag dedicated to the #shortstory including #translations. Please send your submissions to fictivedream@gmail.com. Website https://fictivedream.com/
Kerry Hadley-Pryce @kerryhp.bsky.social Earthling. Writer (Salt Publishing, Fictive Dream, The Incubator), Runner, Walker, Psychogeographer, owned by Border Collie and Welsh Sheepdog, PhD in Creative Writing
Vicky Grut @vickygrut.bsky.social Writer. Short story collection 'Live Show, Drink Included' shortlisted for 2019 Edge Hill Awards. Pushcart nominated, 2023. Work in Masters Review XIII in 2025 and Best British Short Stories 2026. www.vickygrut.com
Robert Edgar @robertedgar.bsky.social Writer and Academic. Professor of Writing and Popular Culture, York St John University. Scriptwriting, Music Memoir, Hauntology, Folk Horror, Science-Fiction
Rodge Glass @rodgeglass.bsky.social Dad. Writer. Cheerleader at Strathclyde Uni. Author of 8 books inc Alasdair Gray: A Secretary's Biography, Bring Me the Head of Ryan Giggs & Joshua in the Sky (Taproot 2024). Big fan of praise. (Giving & receiving) www.rodgeglassauthor.com https://linktr.e
Todd Clay Stuart @toddclaystuart.bsky.social Poet • Writer • Excitable Boy • Words in well-lighted places • Noms Pushcart BOTN Best Small Fictions Best Microfiction Wigleaf 50
More words @ toddclaystuart.com
Giselle Leeb @giselleleeb.bsky.social Short story collection, Mammals, I Think We Are Called (@saltpublishing.bsky.social), Edge Hill Short Story Prize '23 Longlist, Word Factory Apprentice '19, Best British Short Stories '17 https://giselleleeb.com/
Alice Fowler @alicefwrites.bsky.social Award-winning writer of short stories & longer fiction. Debut short story collection, The Truth Has Arms and Legs, published 2023 by @flyonthewallpress.bsky.social
www.alicefowlerauthor.com www.linktr.ee/alicefowlerauthor 
Sarah Jane Butler @sarahjanebutler.bsky.social Reclaiming rivers for all of us. Next book, River Time, due soon. River campaigner, story gatherer, wanderer and swimmer My novel, Starling, published by @Fairlightbooks she/her; pwME https://linktr.ee/sarahjanebutler
Jen Hamilton-Emery @jenhemery.bsky.social Publisher at Salt, editor, CBT-Hypnotherapist at Re:New Hypnosis. Likes words and brains. 
Bookshelfie ⭐️ @bookshelfie.bsky.social The Self-Pub Hub (Book Review and Story Site)
Submissions open now:
https://book-shelfie.com/submissions
Free post creator app: www.post-script.app
Book tour inquiries: contact@book-shelfie.com
Ian Seed @ianseedauthor.bsky.social Author: Forgetfulness, My Outsize Hank Williams Cowboy Hat, Night Window, New York Hotel (TLS Book of the Year), Makers of Empty Dreams. Translator: Pierre Reverdy, Max Jacob, Gëzim Hajdari, Ivano Fermini. www.ianseed.co.uk
Abi Hynes @afahynes.bsky.social Drama and fiction writer. GANGS OF LONDON S4. MONSTROUS LONGING out with Dahlia Books.
Agents: Independent Talent / The Ampersand Agency
Brit List 2022 / BAFTA Connect member
https://linktr.ee/abifahynes
Sarah Turner @scturnerfiction.bsky.social Writer. Short stories in: The Rumpus, Sonora Review, J Journal, Shooter Lit Mag, London Magazine, Fictive Dream, LEON, Litro & others | SL Bridport SS | Read my work at: www.scturnerfiction.com
Dr Kim Wiltshire @kkwiltshire.bsky.social Reader in Creative Writing, love reading, love writing! Programme Leader for Creative Writing and convenor for the Fiction Writer’s Network research group at EHU, former British Academy Innovation Fellow - but views all my own.
A. J. Ashworth @ajashworth.bsky.social Short story writer. Maybe the Birds (Gold SF/Goldsmiths Press, 2025). Somewhere Else, Or Even Here (Salt). Dr.
AK Slade @akslade.bsky.social Author of speculative fiction.
Katie Greenstreet @ktgreenst.bsky.social Bitter Southerner in the UK. Effie Doodle's mom. Lover of sports, TV both prestige & reality, and very dark books. Recovering lawyer turned agent at Paper Literary 
Ingrid Burrington @lifewinning.com writer, artist, (credentialed as a) geographer. editing at large at urbanomnibus.net. research fellow at SFE. buttondown.email/perfectsentences is a little hobby newsletter. past work: lifewinning.com. all me buddy, never spoken for an employer
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
Max Edwards @onechaptermore.bsky.social Books & Football, mostly. Literary Agent - Apple Tree Literary. Bookseller Rising Star ⭐️ 2021. Email me - max.edwards@appletreeliterary.com
Dr Ian McCormick @wokestudies.bsky.social English Language & Literature. Quondam Prof. PhD: Monstrosity. Queer history. Gothic. 𝔄𝔯𝔠𝔥𝔞𝔦𝔠 𝔈𝔫𝔤𝔩𝔦𝔰𝔥. Editor, Shakespeare: New Voices. https://linktr.ee/drianmccormick
Richard O'Brien @notrockyhorror.bsky.social Assistant Professor in Creative Writing at Northumbria University and lapsed early modernist. Working on poetry, novels, & a music memoir/podcast about the Mountain Goats: thirtyyearslater.substack.com. I make music as Groundbird, groundbird.bandcamp.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.
Meghna Sapui @meghnasapui.bsky.social I write about literature, empire, & race. She/her.
https://www.meghnasapui.com/
Katie MacLean @katiemaclean.bsky.social PhD student at Stirling Uni researching Jane Austen and queer performance / Editor-in-Chief, Romance, Revolution and Reform Journal 📚✨🎭
Alan Lastufka @alandistro.bsky.social Editor of OBSOLESCENCE. Award-winning author of FACE THE NIGHT. Founder of small press Shortwave Publishing. HWA Active Member. SFWA Full Member.
Shortwave Publishing @shortwavebooks.bsky.social Shortwave is an indie horror/sci-fi press. Our books are distributed worldwide by Simon & Schuster. Founded and run by @alandistro.bsky.social (active HWA member, full SFWA member).
Our full catalog: https://shortwavepublishing.com/
OR Books @orbooks.bsky.social OR Books is a new type of publishing company. It embraces progressive change in politics, culture, and the way we do business.
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sam @samthielman.com Sam Thielman | Graphic novels at NYT Book Review, seen NYer, Flaming Hydra, foreverwars.ghost.io | he/him | DC COMICS: THE STORY OF A UNIVERSE w/Sean Howe forthcoming | I know I can come off a little proactive, and for that I’m sorry.
David Atkinson @davidatkinsonpoet.bsky.social (he/him) Prize-winning Irish poet writing in English & Ulster Scots. Pushcart nominated. MA from MMU. Archival poetics: Islandmagee Witch Trial & Irish War of Independence
Writing About Writing About Writing @writingabtwriting.bsky.social A free blog about writing books, and books about writing, and reading books about writing.
Writing About Writing About Writing is a project by @thatemilymunro.bsky.social
Find it at Writingaboutwritingaboutwriting.com
Brian Langan @brianlangan.bsky.social Editor and Literary Agent.
www.storylineediting.com
www.storylineagency.com
Amie Jordan @amiescool.bsky.social Author. Tea drinker. Pro Knitter. ALL THE HIDDEN MONSTERS out now w/ Chicken House. ALL THE LOST SOULS out May ‘25. Agent: Lydia Silver, DA Children’s.
order: linktr.ee/amiejordan
Richard Osman @richardosman1.bsky.social Books etc
Emily Cox @emilycoxmarketing.bsky.social Marketing Consultant in publishing 📚
Freelancer of the Year at the FutureBook Awards 2025
www.emilycoxmarketing.com
Tom Noble @tomnoble.bsky.social book editor and marketing man | campaigns director at Orion (views my own etc etc) #lufc
Jamie Coleman @notanactualghost.bsky.social Editor, book doctor, ghost. I make words gooder. https://www.thebestwordsinthebestorder.co.uk
Hesse Phillips @hessephillips.com 🏳️🌈 Historical fiction | Queer history | Theatre history | Early modernist | USian in Spain. 💯 Human-made art or it isn't art.
Debut novel LIGHTBORNE
(LA TRAICIÓN DE CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE)
Rep: Brianlangan.bsky.social.
More at hessephillips.com
Stef L/Literary Elf @literaryelf.bsky.social #BookReviewer, prize entry reader Cheshire Novel Prize, lover of #BookChat, #BookTwitter and now #BookSky! 'We are all stardust & stories '💗 📚
Sarra Manning @sarramanning.bsky.social Reader, writer, chopped liver
Representation: Rebecca Ritchie at A.M.Heath, London.
Nina Pottell @matineegirl1.bsky.social Book Editor Prima magazine. Book consultant for Between The Covers. Hairdresser.
Mia - Book Blogger / Author @paradiselibrary.bsky.social 📚 Award-winning #book & #theatre critic.
✍🏻 #Writer querying high concept novels.
🎭 Often pretend to be someone else on stage.
💻 Day job: global #marketing.
All my links: https://linktr.ee/Paradise_Library
Colin @thebookshopman.bsky.social Passionate reader & professional book tease. Charity worker. Lamb since 1990.
tasha 🍂 @tashuh.bsky.social editorial @ bonnier & footnote (she/her)
Laura Pearson @laurapauthor.bsky.social Author, mum, feminist, reader of proofs. Agent: Jo Williamson Publisher: Boldwood Books
Years Of Reading @yearsofreading.bsky.social I’m Clare, book blogger since 2017 and full time carer.
Life is too short to read books you don’t love, so I don’t.
Clare Drysdale @claredrysdale.bsky.social Book wench at @atlanticbooks.bsky.social
Ink @ 84 Bookshop @ink84books.bsky.social 📚 Indie bookshop and café bar in North London
🛒Shop online for collection or postal delivery
📅 Mon-Sat 10-6 Sun 12-5
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Owl Bookshop @owlbookshop.bsky.social Independent bookseller in Kentish Town, London.
🦉📚🎁
Mon-Sat 9am-6pm
Sun 11am-6pm
www.owlbookshop.co.uk
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owlbookshop@gmail.com
Tel. 020 7485 7793
Waterstones Knutsford Bookshop @wstonesknutsford.bsky.social Within picturesque Knutsford, our bookshop is home for the town's book-lovers.
Open:
Monday - Saturday 9.00 - 5.30
Sundays 10.30 - 4.30
Rachel Sidwell/Gale @rachelsidwell.bsky.social Bookshop and festival bookshop manager. Glitter addict. Singer. Veggie. Bonkers.
Louise @louise-davidson.bsky.social bookshop manager @ waterstones gateshead • baker • chronic overdresser
if the apocalypse comes, beep me
Jodie Whitfield @relishbooks.bsky.social Book Lover 📚
Crime Fiction Fanatic 🔪🕵♀️
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Raven Crime Reads @ravencrime.bsky.social Bookseller. Blogger. All about the books.
TBR pile that can be seen from space.
#BookSky💙📚
Petrona Award 2026
Wildlife/ conservation 🐺
Slava Ukraini 🇺🇦
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Luke’s Blog 📚 Book Blogger @lukesblog1.bsky.social 💻 Book blogger who tweets almost exclusively about banging (and not so banging) books!
G. Willow Wilson @gwillow.me Award-winning soccer mom. Wrote the books that one of those shows you like was based on. Currently: POISON IVY for DC Comics, BLACK CAT for Marvel. Buy my books: bookshop.org/shop/gww
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)
Caroline Hardman @littlehardman.bsky.social Literary Agent
https://www.carolinehardman.com/
Sam Copeland @stubbleagent.bsky.social Literary Agent. Gorgeous father to 3 proud kids. Award-winning author of no.1 bestselling children's books.
sophie walker @sofeeeeex.bsky.social 👁️🫦👁️
marketing @ atlantic books
Independent Alliance- for Booksellers @indiesalliance.bsky.social Atlantic•BedfordSq•Canongate•Daunt•DFB•Duckworth•Europa•
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Five Leaves Bookshop @fiveleavesbooks.bsky.social Nottingham's city centre independent and radical bookshop, est. 2013
Publishing as Five Leaves since 1995
www.fiveleavesbookshop.co.uk, www.fiveleaves.co.uk
We organise about a hundred events a year. Fast ordering service. Four book clubs.
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 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
Bookshop.org UK @bookshop-org-uk.bsky.social The online store supporting independent bookshops 📚 Certified B Corp | Carbon Neutral Delivery 📚 5 star Trustpilot rating.
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Nicole Vanderbilt @nmvandy.bsky.social MD at Bookshop.org in the UK, formerly Etsy. American living in London, usually reading in English and speaking bad French. 📚 Nation of Strangers by Ece Temelkuran
Donna Mackay-Smith @donnamackaysmith.bsky.social Deputy Head of Editorial at the Booker Prizes.