Taka @taka-does-stuff.bsky.social I don't run the Barkley but I run the Barkley sheet https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vS7bFn8RH5Na4vVxNijCsFCiHeYqRksDi5D9ddC9Fz4yK7nOQhEg8HwG78lz-PFVB2EkFn4QlJKEXMV/pubhtml
Keith @keithdunn.bsky.social The image that I run from
Only seems to follow me
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
Michelle @mgarrettwrites.bsky.social Writer, walker, reader, very inexperienced gardener. Smiles a lot.
London Lit Lab @londonlitlab.bsky.social Find your story at the city's friendliest creative writing workshops, where writers teach writers. @lilydunn.bsky.social and Zoe Gilbert - and also find us here: https://londonlitlab.substack.com/ and here londonlitlab.co.uk
Sophie Ellen Powell @sophieellen.bsky.social Theatre Maker - mostly with puppets . Writer of stories -often magical . Finding the funny where I can. Professional day dreamer.
Lucy Avery Writes @lucyaverywrites.bsky.social Writer and artist living in North London. More info on my website: www.lucyaverywrites.com
Rachel Webster Dawson @racheldawsonwrites.bsky.social Welsh arty dyke. Wrote 'Neon Roses'. Comms @ Common/Wealth Theatre. Trustee @ Seren Books. Mentor @ Literature Wales. Writer & teacher (&Mam!) other places too. Email hello@racheldawson.cymru.
Brigid Lowe @brigiddooks.bsky.social Rep @PGJpublishing. Erstwhile academic now wa/ondering at large. Botanical gothic novel The Bloody Branch, based on Welsh mythology, forthcoming with Harvill Secker/Vintage January 2026.
Maya Jones @mayajones.bsky.social Writer
Manchester/Bradford
Folding Rock Magazine @foldingrockmag.bsky.social New Writing from Wales and Beyond.
A bold magazine for writers and readers of the best creative prose | Issue 001: Roots out now | Eds. @kathryntann.bsky.social & @rjph91.bsky.social
https://linktr.ee/foldingrock
Amber Sparks @ambersparks.bsky.social Your garbage mom; writer; she/her; I ♥️ unions; essayist on film, books, fairy tales, and horror; author of HAPPY PEOPLE DON’T LIVE HERE; rep’d by Kent Wolf; I just want you to be happy, honey
linktr.ee/ambernoellesparks
Kate Nascimento - Editor and Proofreader @katenascim.bsky.social Editor (kneditorial.com) and lover of all things dark, magical, and weird 🖤 I edit fantasy, horror, comics, games 🖤(she/her)🖤
@lisadecaux.bsky.social @lisadecaux.bsky.social 
Graham Hughes @graham-hughes.bsky.social Making your words flow. Editor and proofreader of non-fiction and specialist books, business content and sometimes other things. Advanced Professional Member of @the-ciep.bsky.social.
www.gh-ed.com
Chester, UK
Kelly Urgan | Fiction Editor @editegrity.bsky.social Fiction editor: historical, fantasy, sci-fi & contemporary novels @Editegrity
Avid hiker, museum goer
In a constant tug of war between coffee and tea
Reading, of course
Amy Lord @tenpennydreams.bsky.social Northern writer. Author of The Disappeared. Stories in The London Reader, Reflex Press, Palm-Sized Press. Finalist: Mslexia Short Story Comp/Dinesh Allirajah Prize. Arts marketer. Writer in residence Durham Writes & Crossing the Tees.
amylordauthor.com
The Chartered Institute of Editing and Proofreading (CIEP) @the-ciep.bsky.social The UK’s only chartered body for the editorial profession. Championing excellence. Supporting growth. Connecting professionals. Shaping the future. https://www.ciep.uk/directory.html
Natalie Berry @natalie-berry.com Edinburgh-based journalist, translator, climber. IWMF Ukraine Fellow. Words: NYTimes, The Guardian, WIRED UK, FT HTSI, Nat Geo, The Fence etc. https://www.natalie-berry.com/
Helen Mort @helenmort.bsky.social Poet, author, Sheffield-er. Mountaineering literature specialist, running enthusiast, part time Professor of Creative Writing at Manchester Metropolitan University.
Angela B @angelabenavides.bsky.social Writer on high-altitude mountaineering and expeditions. Senior journalist at ExplorersWeb.com. Checking this platform around and testing how it works. 
hannah @curlybeach.bsky.social recovering teacher's pet (she/her)
Kate McKean @katemckean.bsky.social Literary Agent at Morhaim Literary 📚 Newsletter: Agents & Books at agentsandbooks.com. 📚 WRITE THROUGH IT out June ‘25 📚📚 picture book called PAY ATTENTION TO ME out in ‘26!
https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Write-Through-It/Kate-McKean/9781668055540
British Fantasy Society @britfantasysoc.bsky.social Latest news updates and reviews from the British Fantasy Society Community. Home to readers, writers, artists and gamers. Love SFFH? Come join us! www.britishfantasysociety.org
First Ten Pages Programme: https://british-fantasy-society.vercel.app/welcome
Dr Delyth Badder @folklorewales.com Welsh folklorist • Author • Honorary Research Fellow, Amgueddfa Cymru • Antiquarian book collector • Rheibio'n Gymraeg • The Folklore of Wales: Ghosts (2023) • Represented by jonathanclowes.co.uk
folklorewales.com
Katie Sadler @katiemorwenna.bsky.social Book marketing, single mum, freelance life, from 🇹🇹 now in SW London 🇬🇧
✉️ katiemorwenna.substack.com
Bernadette Kearns │Fiction editor @booknannyeditor.bsky.social Developmental editing, line & copy-editing for indie authors & publishers of historical and literary fiction. Love cats. Speak German. Wish I spoke better Irish. She/her.
Full member AFEPI Ireland.
Website: www.booknannyfictioneditor.com
Casey Masterson @kaseejedimaster.bsky.social Hello! I'm an aspiring full-time horror author. I wrote Revelations of the Raven Master and have various short story publications. The novel is coming, I swear. On an alternative note, I'm also a librarian and I love animals.
Kaleidotrope @kaleidotrope.bsky.social Kaleidotrope is a quarterly e-zine of sci-fi, fantasy & horror edited by Fred Coppersmith since 2006.
Read it at http://www.kaleidotrope.net
Support it at http://patreon.com/kaleidotropezine
Avatar and cover art by Brian Malachy Quinn
Peter David (aka Peter Hartog) @peterhartog.bsky.social Author of BUDDY THE KNIGHT AND THE QUEEN OF SORROW and THE GUARDIAN OF EMPIRE CITY series | 80s music guy | Games, books, food, oh my! | peterhartog.com 
Jacqueline Harvey | Editor @jacquelineharvey.bsky.social Academic copyeditor | CIEP Advanced Professional Member https://www.jacquelineharvey.net
Photographer and occasional knitter and piano player
https://www.instagram.com/a.scribe | https://www.instagram.com/a.scribe2
https://www.instagram.com/my_knit_pix
Owen Gregory @fullcreammilkman.bsky.social Independent line editor and copy editor; Advanced Professional Member of the Chartered Institute of Editing and Proofreading (CIEP); oboist and cor anglais player. https://fullcreammilk.co.uk
Gráinne Treanor @editorgrainnet.bsky.social Editor / proofreader / Advanced Professional Member of CIEP and Full Member of AFEPI / Former teacher / Walker and swimmer / Supporter of Breakthrough Cancer Research / Wife and mother, owned by three cats / Dabbling in writing / She/her
Dani Dark Skies ✨ @danidarkskies.bsky.social Defender of Darkness 🌌
Author of All Through the Night 📚
Lover of landscapes, wildlife and all round nature nerd ✨🐝🦇🐳🦉
Surfer and Marine Mammal Medic 🦭🌊
Work to make our National Parks/Landscapes thrive at night 🌌
Cymraeg 🏴
https://linktr.ee/danidarkskies
H Noss @hnoss.bsky.social fiction proofreader, inclusivity & neurodiversity advocate, queer & non-binary. they/them.
https://hnossproofreads.co.uk
Victoria Strauss @victoriastrauss.com Author of novels fantastical & historical, avid gardener, co-founder of SFWA's pub industry watchdog Writer Beware. Casting a small light in a wilderness of writing scams (plus an occasional cat pic)
https://writerbeware.blog
https://victoriastrauss.com
Helen @sunrayravine.bsky.social Librarian. Romance and SFF reader. She/her.
Rachel @raeblainewrites.bsky.social YA SciFi/Horror writer querying a CliFi Dystopian novel✍️📚📝 🏳️🌈
#Posterpit Co-host
Sober Letters to Mom blog. Raising kids in LA because Chicago is too cold. She/her
https://rachelblaine.substack.com
https://rachelblainewriter.com
Melinda Salisbury @melindasalisbury.com Athos in the streets. Aramis in the sheets. Porthos in the skeets
Author. she/her https://linktr.ee/melsalisbury
KE Salisbury @kesalisbury.eurosky.social Author of twisty YA page-turner The Face That Pins You. Also school librarian, English teacher, IB EE Coordinator and former BBC broadcaster, choir leader and songwriter. She/her
https://www.kesalisbury.com/- H @handle.invalid @handle.invalid
Tanya Gold | Editor & Translator 💕📚 (they/iel) @tanyagold.bsky.social 📚 Book Editor, Fr→En Lit Translator, Educator
🍽📖 Working on/devouring speculative fiction, horror, memoir, IF, comics
⭐ Teaching and coaching editors and writers
📘 Faculty @ Emerson's MFA in Popular Fiction
🌈📚 RSM team
🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️♿🪫🇨🇭🎨
🚫gen AI
www.TanyaGold.com
Sam Leith @questingvole.bsky.social @spectator lit ed. “Clock-white, still friendly to the earth.” https://bit.ly/TheHauntedWood
Geoff King @geoffo.bsky.social Omniscribe, wood carver, tree whisperer, quiet revolutionary. Scottish Highlands.
Seeking lit agent for crossover fantasy and literary novella
www.geoffkingwriter.co.uk
https://www.patreon.com/GeoffKingWriter
https://www.buymeacoffee.com/geoffkingwriter
Suzanne Arnold editor @suzannearnold.com Helping authors and businesses polish their text for publication: non-fiction editor and proofreader. Diploma in Egyptology. Random nature photos (not AI-generated). In the UK. She/her
https://www.suzannearnold.com
https://linktr.ee/suzannearnoldeditor
Hannah McCall @blackcatedit.com Fiction editor: Black Cat Editorial Services. Advanced Professional Member and proofreading tutor at the CIEP. Partner member of ALLi. ACES member. She/her 🇬🇧
www.blackcatedit.com
Matt Kendrick @mattkendrick.bsky.social Writer | editor | teacher | joyful Ninja Turtle | chronically ill
Words: Craft Literary, Best Small Fictions, Best Microfiction, Wigleaf Top 50
Website: https://www.mattkendrick.co.uk/
Craft newsletter: https://prattlefogandgravelrap.substack.com/
Jane Dugdale @janedugdale.bsky.social Writer. Researcher. Wannabe ping-ping champion. 
Lina Arthur @lakeslina.bsky.social Climber, guidebook-writer, editor, publisher
Author of Snow & Ice: Winter Mountaineering Routes of Great Britain; Cogne Selected Ice Climbs; Dry-Tooling Great Britain
www.drytooling.co.uk
www.oxfordalpineclub.uk
L. D. Lewis, Sea Witch Apologist 🧜🏾♀️ @ldlewiswrites.blacksky.app SFF writer/editor/publisher. ATL/SEA.
Literary nonprofit person. Ignytes mother. Awards doer. Hugo/Locus Winner. Conrunner. LEGO builder. Joy enthusiast. 77% Cake. Bi. Grumpy. She/her/chef. 🏳️🌈 YEAR OF THE MER (Saga/Titan, OUT NOW). Ldlewiswrites.com
KJ Charles @kjcharleswriter.com She/her. British European. Purveyor of opinions, rude words, and romance novels, historical and fantasy. USA Today bestselling author of How To Fake It In Society. "Erotically charged"--Good Housekeeping. Death to GenAI. http://kjcharleswriter.com
Lesley Conner @lesleyconner.bsky.social Editor in Chief at Apex Magazine. Coffee drinker. Book reader. She/Her
Marieke Krijnen @mariekekrijnen.bsky.social Academic copyeditor, she/her, at www.mariekekrijnen.com. PhD from Ghent University. Specializes in urban studies, urban and human geography, Middle East studies, political economy, Chicago style. Advanced Professional Member of the CIEP.
🚂 fan!
Sam Byers @sambyers.bsky.social Author of Idiopathy, Perfidious Albion, and Come Join Our Disease
Jeffrey Zuckerman @jmz.bsky.social knight-errant + anti-vampire
Lyndsey Croal (she/her) @lyndseycroal.bsky.social Scottish SFFH Author | Shirley Jackson Award & BFA Finalist | Latest: LIMELIGHT, Shortwave, DARK CRESCENT, Luna Press | Words in Apex, Analog, Weird Tales, & more | Rep: Michael Mungiello InkWell, Film/TV: Sean Berard https://linktr.ee/lyndseycroal
Luna Press Publishing @lunapress.bsky.social Award Winning Small Press. SFF in Fiction and Academia. Est. 2015. Member of Publishing Scotland. https://www.lunapresspublishing.com
Cathy Tingle @doceditor.bsky.social Copyeditor, proofreader. Publishing Scotland tutor. Membership director of the CIEP. Literature PhD. Tea lover.
Dan Draper @dandraper.bsky.social Writer: flash; short stories; audio drama; having another crack at a novel.
Maths teacher: mostly in the classroom; occasional freelance bits; some ITT roles with fancy job titles.
danieldraper.uk
Joe X Young @joexyoung.bsky.social I have created an Indie Horror Author Community resource website that will help you to succeed as authors, and help readers to find you.
https://joexyoung.com/welcome-home/
Ayshea Wild @writewild.bsky.social Book Editor at Write Wild
C. L. Polk @clpolk.com I write stuff. I knit stuff. I cook stuff. Ask me about my weird little books. https://www.clpolk.com/
Charlie Jane "Lessons in Magic and Disaster" Anders 🏳️⚧ @charliejane.bsky.social Author of Lessons in Magic and Disaster about a woman who teaches her mother how to do magic — and uncovers a queer scandal hidden in a 300 year old book. Writing Star Trek: Zero Point for IDW Comics.
miz @mizlington.bsky.social british-japanese playwright in nyc. (miz/they)
Beth Hamer @bethhamer.bsky.social Proofreader. Whitstable resident. Swimmer. Servant to French bulldog. Advanced Professional Member of the CIEP. Evertonian. Thinks the Oxford comma is a style choice. (she/her)
Elyse Lyon @elyselyon.bsky.social Fiction editor (mostly); professional member of CIEP; EFA member; likes cooking and walking. Based in Inverness but speaks American. www.elyselyon.com
Lisa Cordaro | Non-fiction editor @lisacordaro.bsky.social Non-fiction editor of award-winning and bestselling books and other media 📚 Freelance. Also photographer 📸 Loves writing ✍️ art 🎨 and the guitar 🎸
CIEP Advanced Professional Member
ACES full member.
Find me: lisacordaro.com
Rachel Lapidow @editrix-rachel.bsky.social Copyeditor, proofreader, & developmental editor of TTRPGs, comics, board games, sci-fi, & fantasy. Newbie indexer. Lover of apple cider doughnuts. Knitter. Generative AI sucks. She/her 📚 www.rachellapidow.com
Brainstormer in Chief: #StetChat @stetchat.com
Megan Harris, Editor @mharriseditor.bsky.social 📚 Book editor for self-published authors ✍️ sharing writing tips & insider insights to help your book shine!🌟 https://linktr.ee/mharriseditor
Paula Clarke Bain @baindex.org Book indexer, editor, boss at baindex.org | Society of Indexers Chair and Fellow | CIEP APM | Cryptic crossword novice setter Pixie | Stockport, UK
🧚🏻 www.mycrossword.co.uk/Pixie
See also
@indexers.bsky.social
www.indexers.org.uk
#IndexSky
Laurie Duboucheix-Saunders @lds-editorial.bsky.social Multilingual editor & literary translator (Fr<>Engl)
Advanced Professional Member of the CIEP. Member of the Translator Association (part of SoA)
Fiction, Humanities, FFL and educational publishing.
Dream gig: translating lit that represents disabled peeps
Heather Belleguelle @behestediting.bsky.social Copyeditor and proofreader of fiction, specialising in cozy mysteries. www.behest-editing.com
Wendy Toole @wendytoole.bsky.social Writer and Editor | creatively self-employed
Aimee Walker @aimeewalker.bsky.social AWE Services &Press
Romance & Women’s Fiction Editor & Writing Coach
Author of Top Tropes: A Romance Writer’s Guide
Apex Magazine and Book Company @apexmag.bsky.social All Kinds of Weird 👽 literary magazine and book company publishing strange, surreal, shocking, beautiful sff & horror. 100% organic, no AI 🚫
🛸 https://www.apexbookcompany.com/
🍄 https://violetlichen.com/
Catherine Dunn @catherinedunn.bsky.social I right books. No job too odd! Advanced Professional Member of the CIEP. Hobbies: snakes, drawing, painting, knitting, crochet, Valheim, gardening, geocaching. Occasional spinner. Noise-maker. She/her. Insta: bearlycat / CatherineDunnArtwork. 📝🐍🎨🧶🐻❄️🫀❤️🔥🎲🌱🫧
SarahEditsRomance @sacalfee.bsky.social Fiction editor and romance specialist, Jane Austen fangirl, unapologetic reading addict, writer, asmathic runner, yoga enthusiast, overly sweary parent, Professional Member of CIEP, threelittlewordsediting.com
Janet MacMillan @janetwordsmith.bsky.social Proud Canadian. Editorial professional. Advanced Professional Member, CIEP. Law, international development, politics, international relations, history, social sciences. Former lawyer. Boxer dog lover. Enthusiastic cook. Engaged citizen. Friend. she/her
Sam Missingham @samatlounge.bsky.social Publishing commentator. Founder of Meet The Booktokers, As Seen On Booktok, and The Empowered Author. Trying to disrupt book publishing for 15+ years. Not easy. 
Michelle Watson @mlwlanguage.bsky.social Freelance proofreader, editor and language tutor
Philip Ridgers @philipridgers.bsky.social 
Nicola Bigwood | Proofreader & Copyeditor | Former Translator ✍️📚 @nicolabigwood.uk Proofreader & copyeditor of fiction & non-fiction, with background as a translator into English from French & German • CIEP Advanced Professional member • She/her • https://linktr.ee/nicolabigwood • Learning Italian and Gaelic… slowly!📍Scotland 🏴
Lorenzo Fusini @loref.bsky.social Data Scientist | Editor | Swimming Instructor
https://www.linkedin.com/in/lorenzo-fusini
Maya Berger (she/her) @mayaberger.bsky.social #ResearchAdmin #GrantEditor #copyeditor & #proofreader.
Creator of #TheEditorsAffairs (TEA).
#CIEP Advanced Professional Member.
#AmEditing, #EroticaEditor, #ConsciousLanguage, #BasicIncome, #UBI, anti-oppression.
https://www.WhatIMeanToSay.com/
Kristin | Detailed Draft @detaileddraft.bsky.social Editor and writer. Résumé specialist (CPRW). Book award judge. Dog hugger. Science fiction, kidlit, and anything else with themes of possibility. she/her
#SCBWI #ACES #EFA #IBPA
detaileddraft.com
Naomi @naomi-g-writes.bsky.social Author of the urban fantasy Last Lux Trilogy, out now in eBook and paperback.
Tea drinker, book collector & world-wanderer based in Berlin. She/her
https://linktr.ee/naomi_g_writes 
Nicky Taylor @nickytayloredit.bsky.social Developmental and line/copy editor for indie authors. Fiction and creative non-fiction. Advanced Professional Member of the CIEP, Partner Member of ALLi. nickytayloreditorial.com - T Eleanor @treetopediting.bsky.social Copyeditor and proofreader for academic authors and publishers. Subjects: mathematical sciences and classical music. Also a lover of tabletop games.
V @veeveeay.bsky.social monster wrangler of 3
KW Thomas - author and editor @kwthomasbooks.bsky.social Very niche combination of steamy contemporary romance author and plain language health editor. North East England till I die. She/her.
mybook.to/TheScoop
Eleanor Ball @eleanorball.bsky.social librarian by day, writer by night | editor @ fifth wheel press, assoc. fiction ed. @ okay donkey | proprietress of backlist lit | https://eleanor-ball.com/
Geraldo Nascimento 🔜 Develop @solivagant.bsky.social Lead Programmer⚡ Game Developer 🎮 Public Speaker 🔊 Writer 📗 Sustainable Coding 🧑💻 🇬🇧
Husband.
#unreal #gamedev #indiedev
Am writing Induction, a #cyberpunk vegan novel, Tapeworld Book I 🗡️
linktr.ee/geraldo.nascimento
Lucy A. McLaren @lucyamclaren.bsky.social Dark & gothic fantasy author
Co-host of Introverted Indies.
🩷💜💙🍉
🚫AI
Echoes of the EtherStone - Jack the Ripper inspired - OUT NOW 👇
https://linktr.ee/lucyamclaren
N. K. Jemisin @nkjemisin.bsky.social Writer. She/her.