Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social Annoying journalist, bestselling author, sweary podcaster and so forth. New Book: 31 Inventions That Built Our World (UK, out now) / A Brief History of Cities in 32 Inventions (US, 13 October).
Clare Pollard @poetclare.bsky.social Novelist. Poet. Reader.
🏺OVID’S HEROINES 🍼INCARNATION 🐇FIERCE BAD RABBITS 🔮 DELPHI 🏰THE UNTAMEABLES 🧚🏾THE MODERN FAIRIES, ✍️LIVES OF THE FEMALE POETS 🌊THE OTHERNAUTS, etc
Substack: Clare’s Poetry Circle
Jeff Billington @facesofjeff.bsky.social Now I am become Jeff, destroyer of worlds.
PhD researcher. Outsider Cinema: Marginal Filmmakers in the American Exploitation Film 1960-1985.
Booklet editor for @indicator.bsky.social. Freelance film writer.
The Museum of English Rural Life (MERL) @themerl.bsky.social We explore the history of the English countryside and its people. Chaotic Good.
https://merl.reading.ac.uk/
Benedict Sangster @benedictsangster.bsky.social Writer, Norwich, UK. Lover of all animals. Books and nothing else
benedictsangster.com
JaseGould @jasegould.bsky.social UK-based writer: fiction, non-fiction, script, film, TV. BA (Hons) Creative Writing.
Latest: There's Nothing Out There (Black Shuck Books), At the Lighthouse (Eibonvale Press)
http://www.amazon.com/author/jasongould
DisMember @dismember.co.uk http://dismember.co.uk/
Hansard: Cheat Mode Activated
Everything interesting MPs said since 2010, easily searchable, sortable, sliceable.
We also uncover interesting moments from the entirety of parliamentary history and share them regularly here.
Corrinne F @traviata.bsky.social “There is a time for the evening under starlight/A time for the evening under lamplight/(The evening with the photograph album)/Love is most nearly itself/When here and now cease to matter”
Songdog LP Mirabilia Mundi out now https://orcd.co/mirabiliamundi
Mike Fox @polyscribe70.bsky.social Short story writer, delinquent poetry reader. Ballerini Book Press, Fictive Dream, The Lonely Press, Confingo, Fragmented Voices, Structo, Nightjar Press, BBSS18 Salt Publishing, Exacting Clam
polyscribe.co.uk
Christina Riggs @christinajriggs.bsky.social Writer and historian: photography, art, archives, museums, colonialism (Egypt, Sudan). Chair in the History of Visual Culture @durhamhistory.bsky.social. Author of Treasured: How Tutankhamun Shaped a Century. https://christinariggs.com
Andrew Wittkop @awestfell.bsky.social books, images, place
LITERARY VOYAGERS forthcoming from Belt Publishing
https://andrewwittkop.com
Howard Mittelmark @howardm.bsky.social
I can explain
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Lit Hub @literaryhub.bsky.social A daily literary website highlighting the best in fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and criticism.
https://linktr.ee/lithub_
HAD @havehashad.com We had an idea that started as a joke. We had an affinity for that minimalist look and feel of early online journals. We had a couple drinks.
https://www.havehashad.com
Matthew Aldridge @mpaldridge.bsky.social But blue. https://mpaldridge.github.io
Hari Kunzru @harikunzru.bsky.social My library was dukedom enough. Novels: Red Pill, White Tears, Blue Ruin, Gods Without Men, My Revolutions, Transmission, The Impressionist. Essays in NYRB, Harper’s etc. Abolish ICE, demolish the arch.
Alistair Green @mralistairgreen.bsky.social 
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doodahdiaries.bsky.social @doodahdiaries.bsky.social Martin & David creators of David Christie’s Doo Dah Diaries sharing the full history of the Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band with fans
Per Engzell @pengzell.bsky.social Interested in how the rich stay rich and the poor poor. Sociologist at @sriucl.bsky.social @ucl.ac.uk. He/him/his. http://perengzell.com Photo bomber @simoneschneider.bsky.social
Keith Ridgway @rid9way.bsky.social writer
Dooneen - out now from Fitzcarraldo Editions and New Directions
previously - A Shock / Hawthorn & Child / Animals / etc
Jennifer Messner @occasionallyzen.bsky.social Books, coffee, photos, nonprofit grant writer, Southside Chicago
Kristy Cacciapaglia @kristyisreading.bsky.social Generally seen with my nose in a book. Sometimes walking about.
Rosalind Ahmed @21rosa.bsky.social Museums, galleries, medieval and Irish literature, folklore, poetry, botany, Cumbrian walks, Oxfam bookstores. Remainer trying to do the right thing in a world that's going/gone off balance. All 📸 mine, unless stated
James McConnachie @jamesmcconnachie.bsky.social Writer. Reviews non-fiction for the Sunday Times, edits The Author magazine. Books about the Kamasutra, Conspiracy Theories, Nepal and, next, a Himalayan mountain. Books, singing, wildlife, languages, running... 
Elise Bell @eliseybell.bsky.social Arts Writer and Commentator with words in Guardian, FT, Plaster Magazine, Independent and Dazed.
You can pre-order My Opinionated Guide to Erotic Art here: https://www.hoxtonminipress.com/products/an-opinionated-guide-to-erotic-art
Iris Murdoch @irismurdoch.bsky.social The Official Account of the Iris Murdoch Society
petipaw @petipaw.bsky.social Venezia / Los Angeles. I read books.
Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com jack of like five to six trades / journalist, author, radio person, art dealer, etc / marie.s.leconte@gmail.com
Star Wuerdemann @starwuerdemann.bsky.social Writer/Educator/Acupuncturist in Washington State. Bread Loaf '23 alum. Pronounced WORD-a-man.
bryn stole @brynstole.bsky.social Berlin correspondent for AFP, occasional reporter & critic at various other places. A Midwesterner in Germany, former newspaperman in the Deep South. “...whenever it is a damp, drizzly November in my soul...”
Sanders Isaac Bernstein @return2sanders.bsky.social reader, writer, theatergoer. PhD into memory. Writing in Cabinet, The Baffler, Jewish Currents, Ploughshares, Hypocrite Reader, Full Stop, Majuscule, The London Magazine, newyorker....
https://sandersbernstein.wordpress.com
Mathilde Montpetit @mathildegm.bsky.social PhD student & translator (French-English) studying medieval West Africa, eunuchs, and the Mediterranean. Plus contributing editor at The Auflauf and the Public Domain Review
Jonathan Main @booksellercrow.bsky.social Bookseller. Chump. Little Richard once asked God to bless me.
Hammad Rind @hammadrind.bsky.social Writer and translator working across English, Urdu, Welsh, Persian and more. Novels پانچویں درویش کا قصہ, Four Dervishes (Seren Books), translation الجھا غم Uljha Gham (Zuka Books), co-translation Nodiadlyfr bach y wawr (Cyhoeddiadau'r Stamp)
Harry Stopes @harrystopes.bsky.social Historian and journalist. Writing a book on the history of prison. Mancunian in Berlin. www.harrystopes.com for work, and www.harrystopes.substack.com for somewhat work-related musings.
Madeleine Watts @madeleinewatts.bsky.social Writer. Novels THE INLAND SEA (2021) and ELEGY, SOUTHWEST (Feb 2025). Berlin/NYC. Perpetually Australian.
Vijay Khurana @vijaykhurana.bsky.social Writer & Translator DE—>EN. Berlin & London. First novel, THE PASSENGER SEAT, out March/April 2025. Currently writing about diaspora and the disembodied voice.
Vorrh Excavation Project @vexcavator.bsky.social A Brian Catling fan page
@vexcavator@mstdn.social
twitter.com/vexcavator
Where Does it All Come From? vimeo.com/842441405
Avoiding Blake: y2u.be/4KmsX7-O7Yg
Cast Squid: y2u.be/28A2u0IMF6E
Free Flash Fiction @freeflashfiction.bsky.social Authors / Writers / Lovers of Words...
Got a flash fiction story within 500 words, of any interpretation, on any theme, that our readers should read? #flashfiction
https://freeflashfiction.com/
Ian MacClayn @ianmacclayn.bsky.social https://linktr.ee/ianmacclayn
Writer. Debut novel THE HOLLOW OF EVENING out Feb 9 2027 with Dundurn Press/Rare Machines
Tim @sailert.bsky.social Acts on stage. Reads books. Watches things. Walks my dog. Rural Minnesota.
IG: @sailert
Newsletter: dazzledgratitude.substack.com
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/
Rebecca Silverwood @beccasilverwood.bsky.social Mother • Trustee • Educator
Passionate about self-directed learning for the sheer joy of it, widening access in the arts, and the Oxford comma.
Marries strangers for fun.
Lothlorien Poetry Journal @lothlorienpoetryj.bsky.social Lothlorien Poetry Journal is a literary journal featuring free verse/rhyming/experimental poetry, short stories, flash fiction and art.
https://lothlorienpoetryjournal.blogspot.com/p/submission-guidelines.html
Strider Marcus Jones @stridermarcusjones.bsky.social Poet. Five published books.DMU Law graduate. Pushcart Prizex4/Best of the Netx4 Nominations. Founder/Editor/Publisher of Lothlorien Poetry Journal https://lothlorienpoetryjournal.blogspot.co https://stridermarcusjonespoet.blogspot.com/p/about-strider.html
Huw Nesbitt @huwnesbitt.bsky.social writer and editor
huwnesbitt.xyz
Cethan Leahy @cethanleahy.com Writer of YA novels Tuesdays are Just as Bad and Dead Teenager Movie.
Also Phder on Ethel Lilian Voynich
Ronan Fitzgerald @rmkf.bsky.social Fiction writer.
Also content designer.
Jason Okundaye @jaseokundaye.bsky.social Writer at the Guardian and assistant opinion editor
Deborah @deborahzafer.bsky.social Reading, writing, rabbits 🐇 ✡️
Director of European Writers Salon @saloneurope.bsky.social
London
www.deborahzafer.com
https://substack.com/@deborahzafer
Samuel Jensen @samuelmjensen.bsky.social writer. desert transplant | MARCH OF THE WAR PRIESTS forthcoming from Mariner Books | soon/in: The Drift, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, The Sun, swamp pink, The Kenyon Review, Strange Horizons, else. | Rep: @hafizah.bsky.social
Alison @alisondennison.bsky.social @AlisonDennison on twitter (with the tree pic)
art history, TV, Sparks, film history, Marx Brothers
The Reader Berlin @thereaderberlin.bsky.social ✍️ Berlin's Platform for Creative Writers since 2011 ✍️
www.thereaderberlin.com
Creative Writing Workshops & Writing Classes / Mentoring / Readings / The Berlin Writing Prize
Ann Jaensch @rostrot-texte.bsky.social Autorin/ Dozentin aus Berlin mit Theater- und Literaturblog, Leidenschaft für Flattersatz
https://www.rostrot-texte.de/
Rob Madole @robmadole.bsky.social Writer & translator in Berlin. ILLUSIONS by Ruth Rehmann forthcoming from Faber Editions
Mark Blacklock @drblacklock.bsky.social Novelist, journalist, lecturer, esotericist. Author of Hinton and I'm Jack. Editor of J.G. Ballard's Nonfiction. markblacklock.com / offaloffaloffal.com
Gabriel Flynn @gabrielflynn.bsky.social Writer. Debut novel, Poor Ghost! out in paperback from Sceptre July 2026. Doing a PhD on Adorno & novel theory. Co-editor of @creativecritical.bsky.social. Berlin & UK.
J. D. Nelson @madverse.bsky.social poet
MadVerse.com
linktr.ee/jdnelson
poetry micropoetry anti-poetry
Boulder, Colorado
almost human
Christus Super Omnia ☩
Matthew Spencer @unpaginated.bsky.social Writer, translator, general semantic drudge. https://paradisealmanc.substack.com/
Influx Press @influxpress.bsky.social Independent publisher known for boundary-pushing literary horror/weird fiction.
Upcoming from Influx: TENDER by Lauren du Plessis (March 30), PARADISE and AS IS by Ben Tufnell (April 7)
https://www.influxpress.com/books
Contact: hello@influxpress.com
julie gourinchas @literaryfey.bsky.social literary agent, speculative & literary adult fiction @ Bell Lomax Moreton. mainly on 📷. cheap wine enthusiast, TTRPG nerd, & Tolkien girlie. nd. views mine. 🚫 query DMs; 🚫 AI.
📍 ldn ❗she, they
🔗 https://linktr.ee/literaryfey
Rob Edmunds @robedmunds.bsky.social I'm a writer of three novels, the most recent about the conflict in Burma during World War II. My previous two novels are both about the ancient Numidian King Masinissa, set during the Second Punic War. 🏴
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https://linktr.ee/robedmunds
Richard Newton @irnewton.bsky.social Writer, reader, traveller. Author of 'Taylor & Burton in Africa'. 
The New Monuments @thenewmonuments.bsky.social The New Monuments is an internet journal featuring conceptual writing, broadly defined. Run out of St. Petersburg, FL. Edited by @ericblix.bsky.social.
https://www.thenewmonuments.com
Send work to thenewmonuments@gmail.com
Megan Clement @meganclement.bsky.social Correspondent in Paris for The Observer.
Writing a book about feminism and football.
Author of DESIRE PATHS, a memoir (2025).
Co-founder of The Gender Beat.
Thomas J. Kitson @thatiliazdguy.bsky.social Translator from Russian to English. Iliazd, _Rapture_. 2019 NEA Translation Fellowship for Iliazd, _PhiloSophia_ (excerpts from Rab-Rab Press). Iliazd's _Speechless Sentence_ and excerpts from _parisites_ and _dUnkee fərEnt_ in _TYPO_ #7.
Jack Petrubi @jackpetrubi.bsky.social A man of many words.
Amy Lilwall @amylilwall.bsky.social Writer. Novelist. Very bad at social media.
amylilwall.co.uk
Jude Cook @judecook.bsky.social Novelist (Byron Easy, Jacob's Advice, Time Being @saltpublishing.com Sept 2026) & critic. Words Guardian, TLS, Literary Review. Radio plays BBC R3. Associate lecturer in Creative Writing Westminster University. judecook.com
https://judecook.substack.com/
Door Is A Jar Literary Magazine @doorisajarmag.bsky.social Quarterly literary magazine of #poetry, short #fiction, #nonfiction, #drama, #art and #bookreviews with cadence and personality to take readers on a journey.
https://www.doorisajarmagazine.net/
John Attridge @johnattridge.bsky.social Associate Professor of English at UNSW | Modernism, novels, specialisation, media, bildungsroman &c | Chair Australasian Modernist Studies Network
Peter Graarup Westergaard @peterwestergaard.bsky.social Writer, politician and teacher.
Website: www.petergraarupwestergaard.com
Author of three poetry collections and a textbook.
Social Democrat/Labour.
Aaron @memoiressecrets.bsky.social 
Fully Automated Matt Jordan @mattjordan.bsky.social Social Democrat. Kinda literary. 
Jayne Joso 💙 @jaynejoso.bsky.social Novelist 💙 Artist 💙
Novels, short stories, plays, poems
The New York Times, Yorkshire Times, TLS, ICON
Arts Council England, DAIWA, & SASAKAWA FOUNDATION Awards
HAY FESTIVAL
Kyle Winkler @bleakhousing.bsky.social Predominant necromancer. Sad books.
The Substitute Teacher (Avon A/HarperCollins Fall 2027)
The Ship of Death (Avon A/HarperCollins, Fall 2026)
Enter the Peerless
Grasshands
Tone-Bone
The Nothing That Is
Rep: Naomi Eisenbeiss (InkWell)
M.A.Orthofer @maorthofer.bsky.social The Complete Review and its Literary Saloon.
[https://www.complete-review.com/main/main.html]
Roger Luckhurst @theprofrog.bsky.social academic/freelance writer, on Gothic, Horror film, Science Fiction. Latest: Graveyards: A History of Living with the Dead (2025). Next 2 books: a taxonomy of the undead and a biography of H P Lovecraft
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
Jack Barron @jackbarron93.bsky.social Teaching Associate, University of Cambridge.
Literary Editor, The Arts Desk.
2024 Anthony Burgess/Observer Prize for Arts Journalism Shortlistee.
Ben Hinshaw @benhinshaw.bsky.social EXACTLY WHAT YOU MEAN
benhinshaw.com
Review 31 @review31.bsky.social An online literary review. Est. 2011
www.review31.co.uk
r.g. vašíček @rgvasicek.bsky.social lo-fi samizdat artist & machine elf in the noösphere
https://rgvasicek.com
Stoopalu @stoopalu.bsky.social Old stuff, piles of dirt etc
Gary Kaill @garykaill.bsky.social lunate.co.uk
Michael Caines @michaelcaines.bsky.social 
Rowan MacDonald @rowanthewriter.bsky.social Writer + Book Reviewer
Lutruwita / Tasmania
https://linktr.ee/rowmac
Lynsey Black @lynseyblack.bsky.social Doing history, gender, punishment, postcolonialism, borders at Maynooth University. PI on Research Ireland Laureate Award, CONSPACE - Contested Space: Penal Nationalism & the Northern Ireland Border.
Bristol Short Story Prize @bristolshortstory.bsky.social The Bristol Short Story Prize is an international writing competition hosted by the Department of English at the University of Bristol.
https://bssp.blogs.bristol.ac.uk
Laila Amado @amadolaila.bsky.social Book lover and cat worshiper, I observe people and write words for a living. She/They. Codexian. SFWA. HWA. Best Small Fictions 2022. Best Microfiction 2024.
Jon Doyle @jondoyle.bsky.social COMMUNION out now via Atlantic Books
Coming May 2027 via Graywolf Press
Rep: Emma Paterson, Aitken Alexander
https://linktr.ee/jondoylewriter
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
Forest McMullin @forestmcm.bsky.social Writer and photographer based in Atlanta. Debut novel coming soon.
Short fiction available at https://forestmcmullin.substack.com/
Photography at http://www.forest-mcmullin.com/
kyle r. seibel @kylerseibel.bsky.social writer + usn veteran // HEY YOU ASSHOLES available now from Clash Books