Scottish Book Trust @scottishbooktrust.bsky.social A national charity dedicated to changing lives with reading and writing. Home of Bookbug, Book Week Scotland and Reading Schools.
Cal Flyn @calflyn.bsky.social Author of the Sunday Times bestseller ISLANDS OF ABANDONMENT: LIFE IN THE POST-HUMAN LANDSCAPE—a book about the ecology and psychology of abandoned places. Currently at work on THE SAVAGE LANDSCAPE, expected early 2026
r. p. singletary @rpsingletary.bsky.social W(e)ide(r)ly published in so-called underground publications, proudly.
Iain Aire @iainaire.bsky.social Word alchemist, the quest for the unobtainable. EcoFiction, Fantasy, SciFi, Crime & Book Binder. The borderland of worlds. www.iainaire.com The Grey Pilgrim’s Gambit https://thegreypilgrimsgambit.laterpress.com Seeds anthology https://seeds.laterpress.com
CJ Payling @cjpayling.bsky.social CJ is a human-generated self-published author and a writing competition enthusiast.
Writer | Editor | Author
Word Wizard | Story Shuffler | Character Commissioner
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Ingrid @winterreisende.bsky.social what power art thou who from below hast made me rise unwillingly and slow from beds of everlasting snow
https://winterreisende.neocities.org/
I keep my online and offline lives separate. Academic, musician, writer, among other art forms. #nobridge
Tempest Teapot ❌ 👑 🐸 @tempestteapot.bsky.social Tempest Teapot: energy coiled in small space
Epic Fantasy novel Demon’s Bargain
#AmQuerying #F #R #YA #A
Kahyla Tamrin faces a demon’s bargain where all the options are bad: fight with soul-destroying magic or lose her family, her beloved, and her life.
Violet Smith @violetsmith.bsky.social Multishipper, smut writer, opinion haver. Find me as VioletSmith on ao3.
40+
Send me prompts! https://ngl.link/violetsmit4064
BreezeNThroughBooks @breezenavarro.bsky.social (They/them) I write wonder-filled stories that make you feel something.
WIP: Water Shaped Breath (72,000 words)
Check out my writing bio at breezenavarro.wixsite.com/writer
BEA is writing the first draft @beaauthor.bsky.social Project idea began: 2024
Project Outline began: Dec 2025
First draft finished: ??? Dec 2026??
Outline is finished ✔️
Draft zero ✔️
Word count so far:12,340/85,000
as of 7/20
NO AI or bots please!!!
Joe Muñoz @lamontjoe.bsky.social Writer & Educator | Author of the novels, To See It Through (2020) | La Lady Fund (2026)| Everyone has a story to tell | #ChicanoFiction | #WritingCommunity | #BLM | #WokeAF | A 🌈 friend | #CFB | #Dogs | #Bosox | #Cats | No DMs!
Jeff Cottrill @jeffcottrill.bsky.social Jeff Cottrill is a novelist, Pushcart Prize-nominated poet, journalist and spoken-word artist based in Toronto.
ʀʏᴀɴ ᴛʜᴏᴍᴀꜱ ʀɪᴅᴅʟᴇ 🇵🇭 🏳️🌈 @ryanthomasriddle.com Award-winning writer. FilAm Queer writing Filipino Futurism. Co-Host Ship Full of Jerks. Trekkie. He/Him. Please no story ideas. https://www.ryanthomasriddle.com/
https://distant-worlds.ghost.io/
https://ko-fi.com/ryanthomasriddle
Amy N-K @aankphd.bsky.social She/they. Nonprofit grant writer/consultant. PhD, research and evaluation nerd. Mom of 4 wonderful young adults. Queer, polyfi, disabled, Quaker, PNW. Grateful for love, art, music, birds, gardening, and my service dog.
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Kylie Holmes @kylieh31.bsky.social Writer, Author, Podcast Producer, Mum, Love Border Collies and making my own ice cream 🍨🍦
Jeff and Harley Quinn @jeffandharleyquinn.bsky.social 💚 A PNW’er stuck in the Midwest 💙
The Storytellers Foundation | The Storyteller's Shelf Podcast @tstorypodcast.bsky.social https://thestorytellersshelfpodcast.com 📚 Kidlit experts. 📖 We demystify publishing! | 🥇 Top 100 & Spotify Award-Winning Podcast | Home of The Big Bang Notable Book List & The Storytellers Summit Series | summit.getstoryrise.com
Jamie Molson @jamiemolson.bsky.social Aspiring trans LGBTQIA+ writer. Current project is a contemporary age gap, sapphic, established relationship romance. Though general interested are just romance, fluff, and fantasy. But one project at a time.
Carolina VonKampen 📚 Freelance Editor @carolinavonkampen.com Editor: Books, poetry, query letters, content marketing
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Maia K. Nolan(-Partnow) @maiaknp.bsky.social YA author and occasional rabblerouser. ⭐️ Alaska-grown Midwest transplant. ⭐️ Drummer in a Judy Blume tribute band. ⭐️ Please do not talk to me about basketball. ⭐️ https://maiaknolan.com
Rep: Paula Weiman, ASH Literary
Brandy O’Briant @brandyo71.bsky.social 54. American in England. Beagle mom. Writer. Literary fiction. MFA. INFJ.
Shortlist, The Virginia Prize for Fiction
Finalist, Wildhouse Fiction Prize
Longlist, Mslexia Novel Award
Honourable Mention, Craft Literary 1st Chapters
brandyobriant.com
The Bath Novel Awards @bathnovelaward.co.uk International prizes for emerging writers
✨The Bath Novel Award | Prize £5,000 | C/d 31 May
✨The Bath Children's Novel Award | Prize £5,000 | C/d 30 Nov
www.bathnovelaward.co.uk
Gert Ramm 🦋 @rammwriter.bsky.social Novelist. Brit 🏴 Currently #amquerying "Time's Signature"- an espionage/time travel thriller (Slow Horses x Life on Mars). Songwriter with Ghostfire. Plays guitar. Likes a pint. 🇺🇦
No service offers/phishy DMs please. 🚫
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Petra Glover @petraglover.bsky.social An aspiring author and former teacher of 23 years. Now dealing with chronic illnesses and loving life with the beauty of words.
Ted @writingted.bsky.social Jon (but most call me Ted).
UK based. Moonlighting in Screenplays & novels
Scored 8 on The Blacklist.
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#Char_Roleplay @char-roleplay.bsky.social Home of #Char_Roleplay! A character/world-development roleplay game.
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Bruce Byfield @byfield.bsky.social Some time writer about free and open source software and would-be novelist. Companion to parrots, collector of First Nations art, and ergonomic keyboard advocate. Now actively querying my novel "The Bone Ransom," a post-colonial fantasy.
✨#WIPSnips✨ A Daily Writing Share Tag @wipsnips.bsky.social #WIPSnips is a daily writing share tag est. Sept ‘23
Share a snippet from your work using the word, a synonym, a variation or ✨vibes✨
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Plus lots more throughout the year
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Inda Lauryn @indalauryn.bsky.social Writer, editor, podcaster, Black feminist, womanist, witch/pagan/heathen, music curator, smartass.
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Gaius Coffey @gaiuscoffey.bsky.social Celebrating the inherent lack of meaning in existence through futile acts of nihilist insignificance and sesquipedalian initiative. Also writing. Also slush-reading for @everydayfiction.bsky.social
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Ivy White @ivy-white.bsky.social 30s | Urban Fantasy Romance
WIP: Steeped in Shadow #SteepedInShadow
I also have Tumblr (but am not very active there because of spambot overload)
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Graham Bartlett @gbpoliceadvisor.bsky.social 🚔 Advising authors, TV writers, doc makers.
✍️ Award-winning crime writer: BAD FOR GOOD, FORCE OF HATE & CITY ON FIRE. Repped by DHH Literary Agency.
🤓 Mentor with Jericho Writers.
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Seb Duncan@theredink.co.uk @sebduncan.bsky.social English Language, Creative Writing, Business English and Data Writing Tutor. Author of The Book of Thunder and Lightning and Headcase.
Jini Reddy @jinireddy.bsky.social Writer of books & features. WANDERLAND (Bloomsbury) shortlisted for Stanford Dolman Travel Book of the Year& Wainwright Prize.
Royal Literary Fund Advisory Fellow/ @DHHLiterary
www.jinireddy.co.uk
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/
Anna C Wilson @acwilsonwriter.bsky.social Writer, swimmer, reader, music-maker. Cornwall-based. Proper job. Here for fun & games & booknookery. Royal Literary Fund Fellow. London Writers’ Salon Coach.
@acwilsonwriter.substack.com
Ruth Brandt @ruthabrandt.bsky.social Writer & creative writing tutor.
Words: Fly on the Wall Press, Bridport Prize 2018, Bristol Short Story, Litro, The Phare, Ellipsis Zine, Fictive Dream, Aesthetica Creative Writing Anthology and other lovely folk ...
website: www.Ruth@ruthbrandt.co.uk
Kotryna Garanasvili @kotrynagaranasvili.bsky.social translator&writer | asst. professor | languages, translation&creative writing | National Centre for Writing mentor
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Lynn Huggins-Cooper @hugginscooper.bsky.social Horror maven. Co-host of Northern Horror Hub. Thanatologist. Creative Writing lecturer at Falmouth. Author. She/her, ADHD. Views all mine...mine I say!
Clare Fisher @claresitafisher.bsky.social *Writer of novels, short stories, & creative nonfiction 📚
*Creative Writing Lecturer, University of Sheffield
*Rep. Julia Silk at Greyhound Literary
* https://clarefisherwriter.com/
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Gaynor Andrews @gaynorandrews.bsky.social Children's author and poet | 'Pandora and the Story Forge' pub by Rocket Bird Books | @scbwi | Based in NE Scotland
https://gaynorandrews.online/
Debi Alper @debialper.bsky.social Author, freelance editor, creative writing tutor and fearless slayer of Doubt Demons. Also interested in mudlarking, singing with my choir, micro gardening, working class peeps and radical Jewish voices. Owned by my cat. She/her. 
Centre For New Writing @newwritingmcr.bsky.social Home to a range of programmes in creative writing & contemporary literature at the University of Manchester. Staff include author Jeanette Winterson.
For more information: https://www.alc.manchester.ac.uk/centrefornewwriting/
Writing Room Org UK @writingroomorguk.bsky.social A welcoming online home for all creative writers, established 2013. We help people write fiction, memoir & poetry. Friendly courses, small classes, hosted live online. Writing drop-in groups & events. Patron of Writing Hannah Lowe. www.writingroom.org.uk
Preti Taneja FRSL @pretitaneja.bsky.social Kumkum Malhotra + We That Are Young + Aftermath
Professor of World Literature and Creative Writing at Newcastle University
Contributing Editor, And Other Stories. Trustee at English PEN.
Agent: Emma Paterson, Aitken Alexander.
www.preti-taneja.co.uk
Curtis Brown Creative @cbcreative.bsky.social Start your story with expert teaching from acclaimed authors, leading literary agents and top publishers. Writing courses online and in London.
https://www.curtisbrowncreative.co.uk/
Kathryn Clark @kclarkwriter.bsky.social Author, Writing Mentor, Editor. Debut YA novel out July 2025 with Faber Children’s.
https://linktr.ee/kclarkwriter
Jan Dunning @jandunning.bsky.social 📚YA Author #TheLastThingYoullHear and #MirrorMe published by Scholastic
🏆Winner Oxfordshire Book Award 2024
Rep: Anne Clark Literary
IG:@jandunningbooks She/her
Books: https://linktr.ee/jandunning
First Story @firststory.bsky.social England's leading creative writing charity for young people empowering young writers with the skills and confidence to tell their own stories. firststory.org.uk
A.J.Clack @ajclack.bsky.social YA thriller writer, dog lover and general overthinker. Lie or Die out now. Lie or Die 2: Blood Moon coming Autumn 2025. Rep'd by Saskia Leach
Frances Tosdevin @francestosdevin.bsky.social Children's author rep'd by Lucy Irvine at Peters, Fraser and Dunlop. Picture books with UCLan Publishing, Quarto, Rocket Bird Books and Andersen Press. Website: www.francestosdevin.com
Jonathan Eyers @jonathaneyers.bsky.social Editor at Bloomsbury Publishing. Author of various adult and kids' fiction and non-fiction. New adult series, "Newt Beresford", being published by Sapere in 2026.
National Centre for Writing @writerscentre.bsky.social The National Centre for Writing is a place of discovery, exchange, ideas and learning for writers, translators, readers and everyone who loves words.
Alex Atkinson @alatkinson.bsky.social Children’s writer of the Spooksmiths Investigate series with
Usborne @northlitagency.bsky.social
@linalanglee.bsky.social
https://linktr.ee/alexatkinsonstories
Arvon @arvonfoundation.bsky.social The Home of Creative Writing. Writing courses and retreats online and at three UK countryside homes. https://linktr.ee/arvon_
Clare Harlow @clareharlow.bsky.social Writer, bookworm
She/her
https://www.clareharlow.co.uk
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Emma Finlayson-Palmer @finlaysonpalmer.bsky.social Autistic Working class 🏳️🌈 Writer, Artist, Editor, former SEN TA & Tombstone Tourist 🪦
#AutumnMoonbeam #MegaMerle - out now! #ukteenchat #WriteMentor #Room204 #NotesFromTheGraveyardShift
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Stuart White @stuartwhitewm.bsky.social I'm just a boy, standing in front of a story, asking it to write itself…
Founder @writementor | award-winning author | Teacher | An auld Jedi trying to teach his kids the ways of the Force!
WriteMentor @write-mentor.bsky.social Join our supportive community of children's fiction writers 📝
Nicola Mostyn @nicolamostyn.bsky.social Award-nominated author of Greek mythology fantasies THE GODS OF LOVE and THE LOVE DELUSION. WIP a horror thriller. Most Active on Substack https://substack.com/@nicolamostyn http://linktr.ee/nicolamostyn
Betty Firth/Mary Jayne Baker @maryjaynebaker.bsky.social Autistic Yorkshire lass, writer of words, collector of pen names. Also designs covers. Repped by @louisebuckley.bsky.social. Website: bettyfirthauthor.co.uk
Bethany Clift @bethwritesstuff.bsky.social (she/her) Screenwriter and author of Last One At The Party and Love & Other Human Errors. Lover of five word titles 😊
Peter Hogenkamp @hogeboom64.bsky.social I write, hike and read. (Is there anything else?) Also, I love pie. Did I mention coffee?
Charlotte Levin (Author) @tinycharlotte.bsky.social Bestselling and R&J pick author of If I Can't Have You and If I Let You Go. Short. 
Karen Gaudette Brewer @karengaudette.bsky.social Editor, author, stargazer, cook. Lapsed downhill skiier. Hapa. Weather geek. Overly competitive at trivia. Currently: personal finance at @NerdWallet. Past: HealthCentral, Allrecipes, Seattle Times, AP. Super Smash Bros. fave = King Dedede.
Caroline England Author *The Return of Frankie Whittle out 8 Feb @cazengland.bsky.social The Stranger Beside Me; The Sinner; Truth Games; Betray Her; My Husband's Lies; Beneath the Skin Also writes as CE Rose: The Attic at Wilton Place; The Shadows of Rutherford House; The House on the Water's Edge;The House of Hidden Secrets 
Frances Quinn @franquinn.bsky.social Author of The Smallest Man, That Bonesetter Woman & The Lost Passenger, agent Alice Lutyens, Curtis Brown. Keen on cats.
Nicky Downes Crime Author @nickydownes.bsky.social I write crime featuring DI Jack Kent and set in Birmingham. I have a narrowboat, Chanelle and love cruising the canals in the Midlands. My latest novel, Her Perfect Girl, is now on sale.
Jane Jesmond @authorjjesmond.bsky.social Thriller, Suspense, Mystery Writer: OnTheEdge; CutAdrift; Her; AQuietContagion; GoneToEarth https://geni.us/jesmond Rep'd
@LBAamanda
Eve Ainsworth @eveainsworth.bsky.social Award winning working class author. Writes children’s books and adult romance/suspense.
Safeguarding Lead. Part time Lady Stardust.
Somebody I Used To Love - 2024
Pieces of Us - 2025
Loves football, fudge and fascinating fascinations.
Rowan Coleman @rowancoleman.bsky.social Sunday Times and NYT best selling novelist and screenwriter. FROM UNTIL FOREVER (UK) coming 3/7/25 Also Stella Hayward THE GOOD BOY coming 8/7/25 (US) Loves Brontes. Loves Horror. Loves dogs. #ADHD #Dyslexic she/her. Supports 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️rights. Fan of equality.
Clare Swatman @clareswatmanauthor.bsky.social Author, mum of teens. Massive Pearl Jam fan. A Chance Worth Taking is out now pubbed by Boldwood Books. Also write thrillers as CL Swatman. No Son of Mine also out now!
Books & more: www.clareswatmanauthor.com
Lisa Sell, Author @lisasell.bsky.social Multiple-published thrillers author. Writing mentor. Meme queen. Writing advice and musings. Runs on sarcasm and coffee. All my books are on Amazon and Kindle Unlimited.
Stephen Cox @stephencoxauthor.bsky.social Novelist. Spooky? THE CROOKED MEDIUM's GUIDE TO MURDER. "A pleasure from start to finish"
THE CROOKED MEDIUM'S GUIDE TO TERROR Sept 2026.
UK writer - AI is theft.
https://stephencox.co.uk/ https://linktr.ee/stephencoxauthor
Colleen Coleman ✍️📚🇮🇪❤️ @colleencoleman.bsky.social Author of Contemporary Women's Fiction Novels #BookSky 💙📚
@kindle @bookouture 
Barbara Copperthwaite | Barbara Havelocke @authorbarbara.bsky.social Barbara Copperthwaite: best-selling psychological thrillers.
Barbara Havelocke: Gothic historical fiction.
Owned by three dogs, Buddy, Scamp & Arty.
Zoe Lea @zoeleawriter.bsky.social Probably drinking tea right now and ready for a natter about books.
Closer Than She Thinks digital book is out and paperback next year. Visit me at www.zoelea.com Sign up to the newsletter https://zoelea.substack.com/
Caron McKinlay @caronmckinlay.bsky.social Working class writer | Feminist | Reader for various Literary Scouts | Digital TV Reporter | Loves books, films and TV | Rep’d by @liverpoollit | Buy THE STORYTELLERS http://amzn.to/3JC6fDR
Tracy Buchanan @tracybuchanan.bsky.social Bestselling thriller author | Founder of Savvy Writers, free community for published writers | Coming soon: Moth to the Flames mybook.to/MothToTheFlames | savvywriters.co.uk 
Amrita C @amritac.bsky.social I write difficult stories.
See this - https://amritachowdhury.com
and this - https://ammanc.substack.com/.
Rob Bignell, Editor/Author @inventingreality.bsky.social I'm the author of 80+ books and an established editor who has helped more than 400 authors achieve their publishing dreams. My books include writing guidebooks, a novel, children's books and more. Visit inventingrealityediting.com
lightyearssaga.bsky.social @lightyearssaga.bsky.social Working on a new sci-fi space opera novel called Light Years.
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John Hill @johnihill.bsky.social Writer of screenplays, sitcoms, plays and short films. If I had any spare time I’d only waste it.
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Mixedandblended @jeffrayharrison.bsky.social 
Georg Pedersen @ytorf.com Writer, illustrator, designer in SoCal making comics. cartoonist.coop member. (he/him)
https://ytorf.com
https://thelanguagedetectives.com
Finbar Hawkins @finbarhawkins.bsky.social Writer, Director, Illustrator
'WITCH', Branford-Boase shortlist, CLIP Carnegie nom'd.
'STONE' pub'd by Zephyr/Bloomsbury https://t.co/uHV6Gtoeni
'GHOST' publishing November 6th!
A. J. Hodges @secondworldedits.bsky.social Author & developmental editor | Writes: horror, fantasy & queer romance 🌈 Published by Asymptote Journal & Foofaraw. he/they | PhD Social Anthropology | Academic DE: https://www.thenarrativecraft.com | Fiction: https://www.secondworldeditorial.com
Andrea Mann @andreamann.bsky.social Screenwriter / Mentor / Landlocked yacht-rock lover. She/her. www.andreamann.com
Page One @ukpageone.bsky.social Creators of the Page One notebook | Home of Page One - The Writer's Podcast & Page One Drafting Notes podcast
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Robb Chamberlain @rc3.bsky.social Writer, actor, former tennis pro, husband, dad. UCF, FSU Law. Prosecuted Charlize Theron(FILM)- Fathered Gena Lee Nolin(TV)- Sued Justin Bieber(IRL)
Ashley N Roth @ashleynroth.bsky.social Writer. Educator. Parent. Obsessed with silent films, cats, and vegan pastries.
WE NEVER TOOK A BAD PICTURE coming March 2025 from April Gloaming
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Amanda Paniagua @amandapanwriter.bsky.social Children’s PB writer ✍️ | Fiction, non-fiction, rhyme | Awesome Mom | Cub Scout leader 🐾 | Part of a bilingual, bicultural American–Peruvian family 🌎
Ron V 🏳️🌈 @rvillanova312.bsky.social 29- He/Him They/Them. Aspiring Writer, lover of arts, sharer of bad memes and more. DO NOT RANDOMLY DM 🚫
Currently editing:Making Utopia
Currently writing: Dust, and Shadows(Peter Pan AU)
Ko-fi: https://ko-fi.com/rdvillanova12
Writer. Thinker. Storyteller. @margarettacoop8.bsky.social Welcome! I'm an enthusiastic lifelong writer currently querying my latest project—a thrilling blend of romance and mystery. It features a noble cowboy and a pragmatic assassin wrongfully accused of murder, leading to a steamy, forbidden confrontation.
treeskulltown @treeskulltown.bsky.social Artist Author • Make Subrealism • https://treeskulltown.com • Handmade art 🙌 : mixed media animation • Art for peace > culture against fascism 🌈
Leonidas @myfotolife.bsky.social I consider myself to be an #artist in the making
myfotolife.com #myfotolife #leonidas #Photography #VisualDiary #PhotographersOfBluesky #photographer
Deborah @deborahholmes.bsky.social She/her, currently hiding under manuscripts trying to detangle her sub-plots and snarky one-liners. Éireannach thar lear.