Helen O’Hara @oharaviolin.bsky.social helenohara-violin.com
Violinist - Dexys Midnight Runners, Dexys, Tanita Tikaram, Tim Burgess.
Author - ‘What’s She Like’ - a memoir.
Available from route-online.com
Dr Laura Varnam @drlauravarnam.bsky.social Tutor in English Lit at Univ, Oxford. Medievalist. Poet. She/her. Co-founder @guildmedmak.bsky.social.
Church as Sacred Space (2018). Encountering Margery Kempe (2021). Primers 7: Grendel’s Mother Bites Back (2024).
Next books on Du Maurier, & Beowulf.
The Man in Seat 61 @seatsixtyone.bsky.social Mark Smith, the Man in Seat 61, the chap who runs that train travel site http://seat61.com. YouTube: http://youtube.com/c/seat61.
💜 Cyn ✨ @obicynkenobi.bsky.social Director of marketing & community teams. 14+yrs in game dev. VanCity🇨🇦
Previously: company of heroes, dawn of war, marvel contest of champions, transformers forged to fight, squad, starship troopers
Martin A Parker @martinaparker.bsky.social Musician/composer mostly from my lap on a boat -
Latest - https://squigly.link/album/martin-a-parker/left-of-everything
https://martinaparker.bandcamp.com/music
https://www.subvert.fm/martin-a-parker
Love sounds, film, nature, cows…
Vol. 1 Brooklyn @vol1brooklyn.bsky.social Thoughts on books and culture, plus original fiction and essays.
Mary Mackey, author @marymackeyauthor.bsky.social Poet, New York Times bestselling author of Paleolithic Era novels, nonfiction writer, award-winning screenwriter.
https://marymackey.com/
Ranged Touch @rangedtouch.bsky.social Bespoke critical deep dives. SHELVED BY GENRE. JUST KING THINGS. HOMESTUCK MADE THIS WORLD. GAME STUDIES STUDY BUDDIES. other stuff. @ckunzelman.bsky.social @ztul.bsky.social and Danni too. www.rangedtouch.com
Kate Pullinger @katepullinger.bsky.social Writer of fiction - books and digital. Inanimate Alice, Breathe, Forest Green. Academic - Bath Spa University. Books. Food. Sleep. Canadian living in UK. www.katepullinger.com and https://buttondown.email/katepullinger
Campbell Perry @campbellperry.bsky.social
Scotsman based in Bannau Brycheiniog
Trainee Welshman
Broad experience in Education (senior management) & Mental Health (clinical lead)
Interested in creativity, wellbeing & environment.
Liz Renner @lrrenner.bsky.social Academic; cats, culture, child development, cultural evolution, social learning; she/her #BiInSci
Rosewind @rosewind.bsky.social Vaccine advocate, ducks, Murderbot…
She/her
Caroline Goldsmith @goldcaro.bsky.social Book type. Kitchen and garden adventurer. Feminist, obviously. (UK)
Freelance publishing stuff: https://goldsmithpublishingconsultancy.com
she/her
Claudia Monpere @claudiamonpere.bsky.social San Francisco Bay Area writer and educator. Flash fiction and cnf in SmokeLong, Bending Genres, Atlas and Alice, The Forge, Ghost Parachute, Craft & elsewhere.Poetry in journals such as New Ohio Review, Plume, Hunger Mountain and Cincinnati R. (she/her)
David Nice @davidnice.bsky.social Writer, lecturer, broadcaster, happily bestriding London and Dublin. Classical music/Opera Editor of The Arts Desk, author of seven books including Prokofiev: From Russia to the West (Yale). Running two Zoom courses, one on opera, the other on concert rep.
Steven Sheil @scsheil.bsky.social Screenwriter and director: 'Mum & Dad', 'Dead Mine'. Writer of dark fiction. Co-Director of Mayhem Film Festival @mayhemfilmfestival.bsky.social. Nottingham, UK. https://linktr.ee/StevenSheil
Creator of @adrianchills.bsky.social
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
Marina Sofia @marinasofia.bsky.social Global nomad, translator (RO and DE to EN), writer and publisher, addicted to world literature. Blog at https://findingtimetowrite.wordpress.com, publish at https://corylusbooks.com
AL Kennedy @writereralk.bsky.social Author, comic, broadcaster and tired person.
Usually UK based, but who knows... Member of the Leguminati, kayaker, friend of ravens.
Molly Crabapple @mollycrabapple.bsky.social Artist. Author of NY Times bestseller HERE WHERE WE LIVE IS OUR COUNTRY: STORY OF THE JEWISH BUND
my book: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/646320/here-where-we-live-is-our-country-by-molly-crabapple/
Mollycrabapple.com
Mollycrabapple.substack.com
Yuliya Komska @ykomska.bsky.social German prof, writer about the material things that metaphors hide 📚The Icon Curtain; Linguistic Disobedience • Pre-order: On a Wire above the Abyss: Walking the Tightrope thru the Rise & Fall of Nazism • next: bio of Curious George • ❤️ in E. Europe • 🍄,🪡
Paul Stubbs @paulrstubbs.bsky.social Poet
The Icon Maker / The End of the Trial of Man / Lost Songs of Gravity / Beast: The List Chronicles / The Carbonized Earth, essays on Rimbaud
https://poetpstubbs.wixsite.com/paulstubbs
Erica Wagner @ericawgnr.bsky.social Writer, reader, cook, friend, lover. Contributing Editor, Observer. Contributing Writer for the New Statesman, Consulting Lit Ed for Harper's Bazaar. Podcaster, various. www.ericawagner.co.uk
Sonia L @sonial77.bsky.social Immigration lawyer about town. Migrant. Queer. She/her. Substack: https://open.substack.com/pub/thoughtsonimmigration
Eddie Robson @eddierobson.bsky.social Novelist, scriptwriter, journalist, incompetent guitarist. I span the genres.
https://eddierobson.wordpress.com
Corylus Books @corylusbooks.bsky.social UK-based independent publisher of translated crime fiction with a social edge. See all our books at https://corylusbooks.com/
Karen RH @karenrh.bsky.social Nurse Practitioner
Love festivals and family
Yorkshire born and bred
Samantha (Sam) Mills @samtasticbooks.com SFF Author | Nebula, Locus, Sturgeon, Compton Crook winner | Hugo, World Fantasy finalist | Repped by Lisa Rodgers | RABBIT TEST AND OTHER STORIES out now! (she/her) www.samtasticbooks.com
Newsletter at https://subscribepage.io/samtasticnews
Jake Kendall @jakendall.bsky.social Fiction writer based in Edinburgh. I write stories about art.
Iris Murdoch @irismurdoch.bsky.social The Official Account of the Iris Murdoch Society
Amy Borgman @amyborgman.bsky.social moon viewing—
after coming home
nothing to say
—Chiyo-ni
All photos I’ve taken with my iPhone unless I’m reposting others’ lovely work.
Comic Book Couples Counseling @cbccpodcast.bsky.social “As far as I’m concerned, Comic Book Couples Counseling is a must-listen for anyone who loves comics.” - Jason Aaron | Hosted by married couple Brad Gullickson & Lisa Gullickson | Profile art by Jesse Lonergan | Banner by François Vignault
mayor of Shark City 🦈 @infinitymachine.xyz comics, zines, collages ✂ infinitymachine.xyz ⛓ non-binary dog dad 🐕✌🏻 (slowly) illustrating/exploring a dream library ✨ infinitymachine.neocities.org 📚🗝️ they/them 🦴 archives/// monyatoma.com
Daniel Sturniolo @dansturn.bsky.social Breeze connoisseur.
Helen Macdonald @hjm.bsky.social Writer. One half of a dynamic duo. H is for Hawk, Vesper Flights. PROPHET with Sin Blache. Rep by the Clegg Agency. Non-binary. They/she 
Sandrine Berges @sandrineankara.bsky.social Furious feminist philosopher, author, likes to draw pictures
British Academy Global Professor at University of York till August 2028
The Portobello Bookshop @portybooks.bsky.social An independent bookshop by the seaside in Portobello, Edinburgh. 🌊 Open 7 days, 10am - 6pm. 📚 Browse millions of books on our website. 👉 https://www.theportobellobookshop.com/links
Annette Fayet @annettefayet.bsky.social Researcher in seabird behavioural ecology, based at NINA in Norway. Puffin enthusiast. She/her
https://annettefayet.com
Jane Friedman @janefriedman.com I report on the publishing industry through my paid newsletter, The Bottom Line, and educate writers on the business of authorship in THE BUSINESS OF BEING A WRITER (University of Chicago Press).
Samantha Fiander @sfiander.bsky.social The Mirror Crack'd... Modelled on Marple, penchant for Poirot. Reposts ≠ endorsements; views are mine, etc. you know the drill from that other place.
#YesToDignity
Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social Historian of Britain and colonialism, material culture, the EIC. Also works on equalities, museums, open access & research policy. Download the EIC @ Home open access volume here: https://www.uclpress.co.uk/products/88277 (or individual chapters via JSTOR)
Mariana Mazzucato @mazzucatom.bsky.social Professor in the Economics of Innovation and Public Value, University College London. Author: Entrepreneurial State, Value of Everything, Mission Economy, Big Con. Founding Director UCL Institute for Innovation & Public Purpose
www.marianamazzucato.com
Dr. Rachel Schine @rachelschine.bsky.social Picks books up and puts them down. Will work 4 مسمن.
Professes Arabic and History @ UMD
Hears selectively. Reads voraciously.
Dr Jo Kershaw @mthrjo.bsky.social Priest, mediaevalist, geek, Scot. All views personal. She/ her
Sophie Coulombeau @sophiecoulombeau.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in English Literature & Creative Writing. Burneys, book history, 18thc reading habits & naming practices. Novelist. Maker of radio. Mother & carer. Yotam Ottolenghi superfan.
Amanda Mason @amandajanemason.bsky.social Writer. THE WAYWARD GIRLS (2019) THE HIDING PLACE (2021) THE DARK (October 2026)
Mary Earnshaw @maryearnshaw.bsky.social Writer. Worrier. Tree whisperer.
Lives on England's northwest coast.
Has spent a lot of time in Zambia and Eswatini with her live-in archaeologist. Can cook for dozens over an open fire if bribed with wine. But would rather write poetry.
Viola Tricolor @kaffeehaus.bsky.social 
Snowy Szafran @snowyszafran.bsky.social 
Spectrum Culture @spectrumculture.bsky.social Film, music and book reviews. Proudly based in Portland, OR!
www.spectrumculture.com
Lighthouse - Edinburgh's Radical Bookshop @lighthousebks.bsky.social Queer-owned and woman-led independent community bookshop. 🏳️🌈 An unapologetically activist, intersectional, feminist, antiracist, lgbtq+ community space.
Find us at https://lighthousebookshop.com/
Lissa Evans @lissakevans.bsky.social Novelist (Old Baggage, Small Bomb at Dimperley, Wed Wabbit etc), ex TV producer (Room 101, Father Ted), voracious reader, owner of an adored and ancient dog.
SvenThe @sventhe.bsky.social Arts and Farts, Comics and Stories. Bande dessinée. Film Noir. New Hollywood. Illustrations. Paintings. Und Altona 93.
Davenant 📸 @marcdavenant.bsky.social Award-winning photographer and writer. Big Issue Top 100 Changemaker 2026.
Website is https://marcdavenant.com
rudetuesday @rudetuesday.bsky.social Semi-retired, reads a lot. 💜: The Best Show, Kids In The Hall, KOllOK, Dir En Grey, X Japan, Trekkie. Gendervoid. Name for pronoun is okay. Here to practice radical kindness. ☸️🖤🤍💜🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
Temple in a city @templeinacity.bsky.social Lit mag for flash fiction, poetry, art and letters. Throw it all at us. Reading is punk.
https://templeinacity.com
Ian Hunt @ianhunt.bsky.social art, architecture, environment & politics | former UKHE worker | GPEW (but here as a civilian) | chief distractions: novels, poetry, botany, buildings | he/him | Green Light (2006)
Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com I report on ICE flights and third-country removals at @prospect.org. Former WaPo (sigh), former flight attendant.
Third-Country Removal Tracker: https://gillianbrockell.com/tracking-all-of-trumps-third-country-removals-that-we-know-of/
Signal: gbrockell.44
Emanuel @gronah.bsky.social Arsenal ultra, leftist, humanist.
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Madeleine Brettingham @littlemaddles.bsky.social Writer. Performer. Amateur fencer.
About: www.madeleinebrettingham.com
Substack: https://madeleinebrettingham.substack.com
Megan McDermott (she/her) @megmcdermott92.bsky.social Poet, priest, reality TV fan, prolific selfie taker. Author of JESUS MERCH (https://t.co/PRT1qJMt9w) & 2 chapbooks. MFA student in Richmond, VA after a decade+ in New England, where I went to div school & served in parish ministry. meganmcdermottpoet.com
Eric Colburn @etherealcolburn.bsky.social Parent, partner, poet, pedestrian (Pedestrian poet? Perhaps…)
https://www.ericcolburn.net/
@joycecaroloates.bsky.social @joycecaroloates.bsky.social 
Kenny @kennypieper.bsky.social Sitting quietly in the corner with a book. Occasionally writing in Nutmeg Magazine. 'Partick Thistle: A People's History' is available now. Get it while you can. https://ptfc.co.uk/product/150th-anniversary-book/
/nəˈθænjəl/ @nathanielbdemiller.bsky.social Trying and failing to be an ex-academic. Works as "linguist" in automatic speech recognition. Owns guinea pigs. Lived in Egypt, UK, and UAE 2-5 years each. Coloradan for now. Translates Arabic proverbs at https://bsky.app/profile/arabicproverbs.bsky.social
Valarie Smith @valarie.bsky.social Every time I reread Virginia Woolf’s The Waves I love it even more.
Also a fan of Sam Shepard, Kerouac, Dickens, Steinbeck, Capote, du Maurier, Willy Vlautin, Donna Tartt, the Backlisted podcast, film noir, Twin Peaks, Columbo & folklore. Portland, OR
Stephan Lewandowsky @lewan.uk Professor of Cognitive Science, University of Bristol. Homepage: https://www.lewan.uk
Jules Winter @roq11.bsky.social I love my friends and books and am a nerd for languages and their history. Also movies, photography, sports and Billie the Cat.
Dr Katie Twomey @k2mey.eurosky.social Autistic, prob AuDHD. LGBTQ+ ally because obviously. Routine goblin. She/her. Sweary, sorry. Lecturer (UK), researcher in language development, psycholinguistics, autism. ♾️🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈
Gillian @heyheygillian.bsky.social But what is Chatteris if you're not there?
@mippy on twitter
Jess Bradley @jessbradley.bsky.social Illustrator, comic artist and writer!
Rep'd by Lydia Silver at The Soho Agency.
Mark Baillie @mbaillie.bsky.social Scottish writer. Debut novel Salvage. Scottish Traveller history, music, books.
Agnes Owens Literary Estate @agnesowenslitest.bsky.social Agnes Owens Literary Estate Executor: John Crosbie.
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Jan Carson @jancarsonwrites.bsky.social I’m not terrific but I’m competent
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Radiance Films @filmsradiance.bsky.social Independent distribution company releasing classic films on Blu-ray in US/CA/UK/IE | https://www.radiancefilms.co.uk/
Robin Baker @robinalexbaker.bsky.social Film. TV. Archaeology. Pottery. Photography. Novels and short stories. Design. India. London. West Dorset 🌻 🍉
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Nancy Cooper Frank @ncooperfrank.bsky.social Reader, sometime writer, curious person. Russian literature Ph.D. Interested in Slavic languages, French language & literature, world history, archeology, linguistics, trivia
Also: Abolish ICE.
Living with cancer.
Daniel @deargodwhaat.bsky.social I'm just this guy yknow. All opinions entirely my own, and probably wrong
@FrancesC.bsky.social @franapunk.bsky.social 💙📚Writer and Glasweigan chancer. 📖A BAD BAD PLACE Agents:
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Editor: Finn Cotton Transworld Penguin
Kirstin Innes @kirstininnes.bsky.social Author 📕Fishnet (2015) 📙Scabby Queen (2020) 📗Brickwork: A Biography of The Arches (2021) 📘currently writing The Book Of Risk (novel not self-help manual), a screenplay and a musical. Maw of boys. Quite tired, yes.
John Hughes @johnmelhughes.bsky.social 
Alison @alisondennison.bsky.social @AlisonDennison on twitter (with the tree pic)
art history, TV, Sparks, film history, Marx Brothers
Dr Malice @atarbuck.bsky.social Poet & academic. Author of ‘A Spell in the Wild'& 'Modern Craft'. Queer as a bent penny, likes the sea, silk stockings, an excess of green. 🏳️🌈 she/they. Crepuscular/ Chaucerian/ enamoured of rot.
David Higham @oldtrotter.bsky.social Former economist and civil servant. Former (age related) national cycling champion. Still a music fan. Sewn up member of the Zipper Club.
David Benedict @eggsbened.bsky.social Cultural talk and typing. And singing.
Biographer of Stephen Sondheim.
Variety, London theatre critic.
The Stage, Associate writer.
Tristram Hawkshaw in The Archers.
Somewhat gay. 
Rachel @vignettes.bsky.social Absurdist, writer, explorer, escape artist.
Writer of poetry, prose & flash fiction.
Words in Literary Revelations: Haiku for Soul Mates @epistemiclit.bsky.social, Pure Haiku, From One Line Vol.7, The Survivor Zine
British, living in Italy. 🇮🇹🇬🇧
Morgan L Ventura (they/she) @morganvl.bsky.social Writer of odd things | In Al Jazeera, Poetry Ireland Review, Strange Horizons, Banshee, F&SF, Best Canadian Essays 21' | Codex | MA Seamus Heaney Centre, QUB, PhD UChi | They/She 🏳️🌈 Sicilian-Irish-Egyptian
Arts Council of NI 2025
Lucy Prebble @lucyprebblish.bsky.social 
Defector @defector.com The last good website.
Matthew Aldridge @mpaldridge.bsky.social But blue. https://mpaldridge.github.io
Lee Randall @leerandall.bsky.social Thwarted Madcap Heiress. Free-range book festival programmer, editor, writer, interviewer, reviewer, prize judge. Programmer, Wigtown Book Festival 2026. www.wigtownbookfestival.com
Richard Morley @sevenworldscollide.bsky.social Citizen engagement in health research, politics, the outdoors, coffee, photography. Do not respond to unsolicited DMs.
Rabih Alameddine @rabihalameddine.bsky.social I write sometimes
www.rabihalameddine.com
Frank Wynne @terribleman.com Irish literary translator, editor, writer, 2022 International Booker Chair. he/him/oi, you! 🌈
Nicola Kerr @nicolakerr.bsky.social Travel & theatre, London & New York. Scientist by education, accountant to pay the bills, now doing local volunteering in Norfolk. Used to have fun flying aircraft.
Greg Jenner (Historian) @gregjenner.bsky.social ~Public Historian 📜🤓
~Host & creator BBC YOU’RE DEAD TO ME podcast😆🧐🎙️📻📜🏛️
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~ BBC HORRIBLE HISTORIES (2008-19)
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~Hon. Dr & Fellow, University of York IPUP 🧑🎓
~Spurs fan #COYS ⚽️
www.gregjenner.com 🧑💻
Jenevieve Carlyn @coastalpoet.bsky.social Evie | "The greatest journey begins with a single hoofbeat.” Connecticut Poet Laureate Award for Ecopoetry. Poetry of the Sacred Prize. Palette Poetry Love and Eros Prize Finalist. Commended Mist & Mountain, Shortlist Artemesia Arts
jenevievecarlyn.com
Paul Connolly @thepaulconnolly.bsky.social Writer
Poetry: Debut collection due Spring ‘27
(Broken Sleep Books)
Forward Prize/BOTN nominee
100+ poems in Agenda, Stand, Poetry Salzburg, Chiron Review, IS&T etc & on BBC
Charles Causley & Bridport shortlists
Prose: Orwell Prize/Bridport Novel longlists
London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk Critical thinking, published every fortnight.
Read at lrb.co.uk
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