McCormack Writing Center @mccormackwc.bsky.social Write. Revise. Karaoke.
Workshops, Residencies, & Classes
Since 2003
Formerly the Tin House Workshop
mccormackwritingcenter.org
English and Creative Writing Goldsmiths University @goldsmithsenglish.bsky.social English & Creative Writing, Goldsmiths, University of London. Where creative daring meets critical rigour, discover the world of literature & language.
https://www.gold.ac.uk/ecw/
A Small, Good Thing @smallgoodpodcast.bsky.social "A Small, Good Thing" is the podcast about short fiction. Interviews with writers, academics, publishers, and anyone who shares a passion for short stories.
Instagram: @smallgoodpodcast
https://linktr.ee/smallgoodpodcast
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European Network of Short Fiction Research @ensfr.bsky.social We aim to provide a forum and resources for European-based researchers into the practice, criticism and transmission of short fiction in its diversity of forms and to facilitate collaboration in both critical and practice-led research.
Wendy Pratt @wendypratt.bsky.social Author: The Ghost Lake
Poet: Blackbird Singing at Dusk
Editor: Spelt Magazine
https://linktr.ee/wendypratt
Nathan Anderson/Submersible Press @njapoetry.bsky.social Experimental poet and artist from Mongarlowe, Australia. Member of the C22 experimental writing collective. Publisher of Submersible Press.
nathanandersonwriting.home.blog
c22press.wordpress.com
submersiblepress.wordpress.com
Ella B. Winters @ella-b-winters.bsky.social Writer, research, social worker, lecturer, eternal student, working on my PhD.
Artemesia Arts shortlist; Forward prize nominated; Pushcart prizes nominated x2
PJ Holden @pauljholden.com Comic Artist.
Website: www.pauljholden.com
Portfolio: www.pauljholden.com/portfolio
Eisner & Harvey nominated webcomic: Terran Omega at www.pauljholden.com/patreon/?via=bskybio
Absolutely no generative AI🚫
Contact: pjholden at gmail dot com /
Sarah(‘s new account) @harriet-vane1.bsky.social Like many others who have lived long in a great capital, she had strong feelings about the various railway termini.
Writer represented by Bridget Smith at Jabberwocky Literary Agency. Interested in mysteries, EM Forster, Star Trek, and trains. She/her
Margaret Kelleher @mgtkell.bsky.social Prof and Chair of Anglo-Irish Literature, University College Dublin
Ana K @anakinsella.bsky.social Writer in Dublin, delusional optimist. My novel FRIDA SLATTERY AS HERSELF out May 2026!!! LOOK HERE (2022)
anakinsella.com
Dr Pauline McGonagle @pgmcgonagle.bsky.social Lecturer in Mod Lit, University of Groningen, Netherlands. Donegalian. AHRC PhD at Exeter/BL on archive of Ruth Prawer Jhabvala.@unigroningen@bsky.social
Jenny Judge @jennyjudge.bsky.social I write about music and mind. Lecturer (i.e. asst prof) in philosophy at the Uni of Melbourne. Formerly NYU Philosophy (PhD) and Cambridge (music PhD). 🇮🇪
Rob Spence @spencro.bsky.social Former Eng Lit academic. Ford Madox Ford, Wyndham Lewis, Penelope Fitzgerald, Robert Nye, but mainly Anthony Burgess, a fellow Mancunian.
robspence.org.uk shinynewbooks.co.uk
victorcrabbe on Insta
Substack https://open.substack.com/pub/rob611
Derek A. Michaud @derek-michaud.bsky.social Senior Lecturer and Chair of Philosophy, University of Maine.
Marilyn Stendera @marilynstendera.bsky.social Lecturer in philosophy at Wollongong, views my own. She/her. Phenomenology, cognition, time. Lover of sci fi, horror, metal, games. Check out my work: https://philpeople.org/profiles/marilyn-stendera 
Samantha Rose Hill @samantharhill.bsky.social Books: Hannah Arendt and What Remains
Representation: The Wylie Agency
Substack: samantharosehill.substack.com
Yanni Ratajczyk @yannir.bsky.social YUFE MSCA Post-doc project on Iris Murdoch University of Rijeka/Antwerp
Huw Marsh @huwmarsh.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in English at QMUL | contemporary fiction, comedy and work http://tinyurl.com/32zydzav | he/him
https://www.qmul.ac.uk/sed/staff/marshhuw2.html
Mike Jacovides @jacovides.bsky.social I teach philosophy at Purdue. My opinions are my own and don't represent my employer. Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!
Effie Seiberg @effies.bsky.social Nebula-winning and Hugo/Sturgeon-nominated writer. Bagel the Dog's emotional support human. Dadjoke teller. Unrepentant punster. Sentence-fragment lover. Disabled w #MECFS She/her effieseiberg.com/stories
Exoplanet || subs open Sept 1st @exoplanetmag.com New digital magazine for experimental speculative short fiction. Stories that imagine new worlds and new ways to explore them.
First #submissions window: September 1 - 15, 2026
First issue: December 1, 2026
exoplanetmag.com
UK Kant Society @ukkantsociety.bsky.social The UKKS is home to all things Kant in the UK and was founded in 1994, by Professor Graham Bird. We aim to act as a forum for the exchange of views about Kant's philosophy. https://www.ukks.co.uk/
Clarissa (Riss) Muller-Kosmarov @c-mullerkosmarov.bsky.social PhD candidate @uni-of-warwick.bsky.social | Othering & Belonging | Critical Phenomenology | Philosophy of Disability | Philosophy of Neurodivergence |🏳️🌈 she/they | AuDHD
https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/philosophy/people/muller/
Ian Green @ianthegreen.bsky.social SFF author; EXTREMOPHILE & THE ROTSTORM trilogy out now with HoZ books/Ad Astra; PhD in epigenetics; ᛉᚷᛏᚫ; www.ianthegreen.com; https://geni.us/extremophile
Katie @dryadula.bsky.social Library worker and student. Multi-genre reader. Parent. No genAI.
Dana Howard @thedanahoward.bsky.social Assistant Professor | Bioethics and Philosophy. Views are my own and not that of my employer.
Professional website: https://sites.google.com/site/danasarahhoward/
Mary Mackey, author @marymackeyauthor.bsky.social Poet, New York Times bestselling author of Paleolithic Era novels, nonfiction writer, award-winning screenwriter.
https://marymackey.com/
Rashed Ahmad @rashed.link Logician and philosopher at Kuwait University
Xavier Aldana Reyes @xaldanareyes.bsky.social Reader in English Literature and Film •
International Gothic Association co-president (2022-2026) • Manchester #Gothic Centre founding member • #Horror Studies book series editor • Profile: https://tinyurl.com/2czvabnz
Sage Tyrtle 🇨🇦 @sagetyrtle.bsky.social Award-winning storyteller, writer, workshop facilitator. Taught 150+ workshops including Second City, Smokelong Quarterly, Clarion West. Stories published in Barrelhouse, Baltimore Review, Apex, Fractured Lit etc. www.tyrtle.com. #HumanMade
Michelle Orsi @michelleorsi.bsky.social Poet. Poems in Ploughshares, The Southern Review, Five Points, swamp pink, The Florida Review & DIAGRAM.
Dave Price @prof-price.bsky.social Let’s solve the climate crisis.
SUNY adjunct teaching comp and intro lit. PhD. 2018 dissertation on Joyce, Pound, Yeats (transcendence and deconstruction). If I post my opinion, it’s my view, not an institution I might happen to work for or associated w.
the modernist @themodernist.bsky.social magazine, bookshop, gallery, publisher, events. 20th century architecture & design. a non profit social enterprise.
https://the-modernist.org/
https://uk.bookshop.org/shop/themodernist
The Barbellion Prize @barbellionprize.bsky.social The Barbellion Prize celebrates and promotes writing that represents the experience of chronic illness and disability. SUBMISSIONS OPEN https://barbellionprize.org/
**NEW CORRECT OFFICIAL ACCOUNT**
Verity Holloway @verityholloway.bsky.social Strange fiction, weird history. Lost member of the PRB. Marfan syndrome. Will-o’-the-wisp. Victorians, folklore, bad medicine. THE OTHERS OF EDENWELL and CHEER THE SICK out now. Non-fiction in @helleborezine.bsky.social. 🦇🖋️🇬🇮
Rye Zuul @ryezuul.bsky.social Artist, writer, editor, reviewer, pet appreciator from Manchester.
Commissions, editing services available at zuul.art@outlook.com.
https://patreon.com/RyeZuul
https://ko-fi.com/ryezuul
SFF, horror, occultism, religion, philosophy.
🏳️⚧️ Any pronouns. 🖤
Society for LGBTQ Philosophy @philosophy.lgbt 📰 Join new philos-QT listserv!
🥨 Plan 2027 APA sessions
🎨 Uplift queer & trans philosophy
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Mike Brooks @mikebrooks668.bsky.social That freelance Audible-bestselling, British Fantasy Awards-losing SFF author with Very Tall Hair. Guitarist, singer, occasional DJ. (d)eaf, queer. He/him.
All queries to @losbennett.bsky.social at Liverpool Literary Agency
www.mikebrooks.co.uk
Pádhraic Quinn @quinnpadhraic.bsky.social 2025 Irish Book Awards Winner for New Irish Writing Best Short Story
2025/26 London Library Emerging Writer
https://m.independent.ie/entertainment/new-irish-writing/new-irish-writing-all-the-birch-trees-were-waving-by-padhraic-quinn/a1765826609.html
Rosa Campbell @rosacampbell.bsky.social “writer” & “academic” (poetry, poetics, archives, gender, failure) // British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow @ St Andrews // co-director Network for New York School Studies // Houghton Library Visiting Fellow, Harvard // she/her // 🧂 // linktr.ee/rosacampbell
Matt Whittle @drmattwhittle.bsky.social Lecturer, University of Kent
Postcolonial & contemp lit, climate crises, migration & decolonisation
📚Global Literature & the Environment (2024) • Post-War British Literature & the End of Empire (2016)
Evan Kindley @evankindley.bsky.social "The New York School: Poetry, Art, and Friendship in Midcentury Manhattan" forthcoming from Knopf, March 2027 https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/737462/th
Coffee House Press @coffeehousepress.bsky.social Coffee House Press is an independent nonprofit publishing house based in Minneapolis. Literature forever.
Dan Hassler-Forest @danhf.bsky.social Author, teacher, anti-authoritarian, media studies prof @ Utrecht Univ. New book – FAST AND FURIOUS FRANCHISING: https://www.upress.umn.edu/9781517921088/fast-and-furious-franchising/
Elizabeth Hopkinson @hidden-grove.bsky.social She/they. Author of Asexual Fairy Tales and Angelio series. Mostly here for the OFMD content. On Threads as angeliocitystate.
Laura Elliott @tinywriterlaura.bsky.social Disabled writer of things. Bad at being on BlueSky. Debut sci-fi horror novel AWAKENED out now with Angry Robot Books.
‘An impressive debut worth losing sleep over’ - New York Times
Debbie Roberts @djr1138.bsky.social Philosopher at University of Edinburgh.
Gareth Wood @garethwoodwrites.bsky.social Back from the ether. Blue City born. SFF/Folk Horror writer. ‘At Night, White Bracken’ out now everywhere, ‘To Those from Below’ coming June 15th 2026. Repped by @losbennett.bsky.social at Liverpool Lit Agency
Dr Mike Hollows/MJ Hollows He/Him @mikehollows.bsky.social "The John Lewis Christmas Advert of Authors." Historical fiction/SFF Author. PhD Creative Writing (Science Fiction)/Lecturer. ME/CFS, late diagnosed ADHD. He/Him. Liverpool-based. Rep’d by Liverpool Literary Agency
https://linktr.ee/mikehollows
Pavilion Poetry @pavilionpoetry.bsky.social Award-winning publisher of the best in contemporary poetry, from @livunipress.bsky.social. Not currently accepting submissions.
https://linktr.ee/pavilionpoetry
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.
Lauren Redhead ☮️ @laurenredhead.bsky.social Music. Running. Dog walking. Vegetables.
I circle round the sun until some day I won’t.
Brigids Gate Press @brigidsgatepress.bsky.social Micro Indie Mom & Pop Press.
www.brigidsgatepress.com
Thea Lyons 🌈 Updates Only. Please 👀 at my 📚. 💜 @alethearlyons.bsky.social SFF Writer | Author of the dark fantasy Seer of York series published by @BrigidsGatePress.bsky.social | Querying cyberfae Legend of the Bard | Ze/She | Trans Rights are Human Rights | BLM
linktr.ee/alethearlyons
Dr Kat Day (she/her) 🌑 @chronicleflask.katday.com Science & Fiction editor/writer. Krawalloger. Chemistry PhD ⚛️ Co-Editor at PseudoPod 🦑 Writer: The Crash Course Organic Chemistry & various DK science books 🧪 Short fiction ✒️ thefictionphial.wordpress.com
Glasgow SF Writers' Circle @gsfwc.bsky.social Est. 1986, GSFWC is a critique workshop for writers of fantastical literature based in Scotland.
Official website, anthologies and more: https://linktr.ee/gsfwc
Will Tattersdill @tattersdill.bsky.social Writer and teacher. Literature and science, dinosaurs, fantasy/sci-fi, alternate history, worldbuilding, periodicals, museums, etc. Fiction as W. J. Tattersdill. He/him.
UofG Fantasy @uofgfantasy.bsky.social @uofglasgow.bsky.social Centre for Fantasy + the Fantastic + Masters in Fantasy (https://gla.ac.uk/postgraduate/taught/fantasy/). Co-directors: @tattersdill.bsky.social and @mjrsangster.bsky.social. Website: https://fantasy.glasgow.ac.uk/
Claire Pierson @clairepierson.bsky.social Reader in Politics at University of Liverpool.
Reproductive politics and abortion rights activism.
https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/politics/research/research-projects/abortion-reform-strategies/
Caroline Koegler @carolinekoegler.bsky.social Chair of English Lit / Global Literature and Its Media
@ Freie Universität Berlin (FU)
Empire/post/colonial/18C/19C/affect/queer & gender stds/maritime fictions/lit&Economics/book stds
Website: https://tinyurl.com/bddnpakt
@freieuniversitaet.bsky.social
Andrew Michael Gorin @andrewgorin.bsky.social writer, assistant professor of poetics, media, public sphere andrewmichaelgorin.info, organismforpoeticresearch.org
Lucinda Menaul @lhmenaul.bsky.social Classics and English Lit PhD student funded by the AHRC, Kings College London. Interested in Victorian classical and medieval reception + literary representation of horses
I shoot on pretentious retro cameras…
Centre for Philosophy of Time @cptmilano.bsky.social Based at the University of Milan, the CPT promotes philosophy of time activities in Europe, uniting professors, researchers, and students in analytic philosophy to collaborate on time-related projects and share their results. Director: Giuliano Torrengo.
PinkNews @pinknews.bsky.social The worlds most read and watched LGBTQ+ media publisher.
Our mission - to inform, inspire change and empower people to be themselves 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
Find us at www.thepinknews.com
Kit Whitfield - fantasy writer @kitwhitfield.bsky.social World Fantasy Award finalist. She. No AI
In Brian Froud's Green Women: bit.ly/4cOoxUT
The Gyrford series: tinyurl.com/nvvetupj
Horror reviews: https://tinyurl.com/5cyf7x5v
Patreon posts (free): https://www.patreon.com/cw/kitwhitfield
Rep: Sophie Hicks
Girl on the Net @girlonthenet.bsky.social Sex blogger, audio porn producer, collection of atoms and stories.
Love me or leave me alone.
https://www.girlonthenet.com
Liverpool University Press @livunipress.bsky.social Publishing exceptional research since 1899.
Home to @pavilionpoetry.bsky.social, @oxunienl.bsky.social, @modlangopen.bsky.social, and @lupdistribution.bsky.social.
linktr.ee/livunipress
Sophie Fuggle @fuggbug.bsky.social James Barrow Professor of French and Head of Department of Languages, Cultures and Film @liverpooluni.bsky.social
Co-founder http://ilesmondes.wordpress.com
To be found somewhere between the prison and the beach.
Hannah Greenstreet @hgreenstreet1.bsky.social Lecturer, playwright, theatre critic and cat lover.
Marco Perale @mperale.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Classics at the University of Liverpool. Editor, The Classical Quarterly. Working class academic tweeting about Classics/Papyrology.
Professor Lisa Johnson (known as Lisa Colton) @lisacolton.bsky.social Musicologist, parent, fair-weather gardener
Head of Music Department at University of Liverpool
Anna Walsh @annaannawalsh.bsky.social Contemporary historian. Interested in migration, cities and towns, visual and material cultures, 20th century buildings, photography, leisure centres, pubs, creative methodologies, Irish and British history and oral history. Liverpool.
Sofia Lampropoulou @sofialampro.bsky.social University of Liverpool. Storytelling and identity; story-critical (and story-abstinent); migration; language, power and social inequalities.
Lauren Mooney @mooneylwrites.bsky.social Writer. Debut novel SERVICE out now. Writing theatre for Kandinsky & audio for Big Finish. Freelance dramaturg, tortoise keeper, slow swimmer.
Rep: 📚 Veronique Baxter, DHA.
Rep: 🎭🎥📺 Imogen Sarre, Casarotto.
https://linktr.ee/lauren_mooney
Department of English at the University of Liverpool @livunienglish.bsky.social Avid readers and writers, students and staff -- we are the department of English at University of Liverpool! 
SF Layzell @sflayzell.bsky.social I write queer stories & edit books sometimes https://sflayzell.com/
Buy Cottonopolis, a MG set in 1840s Manchester, shortlisted for Little Rebels https://sflayzell.com/cottonopolis/
Views mine, contact via website
Kirsten Saxton @kirstensaxton.bsky.social 18/19th lit, pop culture & out of order history, queer studies, crime fiction, hometown Oakland she/her/they
Katarzyna Burzyńska @prof-burzynska.bsky.social Vegan literature professor working in feminist and queer studies, interested in depictions of pregnant people in early modern lit. (she/her) 🌱🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ 🧘🏃🚵
Dr. Ellen Lee @ellenleephd.bsky.social Feminist, queer, & cognitive approaches to ancient lit + equity pedagogy in language classrooms. UMich PhD, UTexas BA. USW Steelworker. (she/ista) FirstGen
Jessica Hurley @jessicahurley.bsky.social English prof teaching SFF, environmental humanities, queer studies, NAIS, contemporary lit. Currently researching nuclear cultures in decolonial contexts. Author of Infrastructures of Apocalypse: American Literature and the Nuclear Complex. She/they pls.
Michael D. Snediker @mdsnediker.bsky.social Professor of American Lit & Poetics at the University of Houston; Emersonian/Thoreauvian/Dickinsonian/Jamesian; author of Contingent Figure: Chronic Pain & Queer Embodiment (U.Minnesota Press), Jones Very (Ornithopter Press), &c. 
Dr Sam Hirst @romgothsam.bsky.social Cat sitter. Gothic lit and theology. Romance studies. Byron studies. Runs 'Romancing the Gothic'. Writes queer little stories.
Kevin Casas ✨ @kevincasas.bsky.social 🏳️🌈• he/him • Writer of queer and supernatural stories • Production Coordinator at Flying Bark Productions
Lit Rep: Jessica Mileo @ Inkwell Management 📚
Email: heyokjc@gmail.com
pfp: @aspirinoverdose.bsky.social
banner: @riadoodles.bsky.social
fifth wheel press @fifthwheelpress.bsky.social very queer lit and art publishing space
learn more about us: fifthwheelpress.com/links
P.S.C. Willis 🌈🖋️ Crying Out for Magic - Out Now! @pscwillis.bsky.social Pronouns: any
A meet cute across worlds: get 'Crying out for Magic' from Space Wizard Science Fantasy or https://books2read.com/cofm
Fan of tea, cake, and cats. Writer of optimistic queer sci fi and fantasy from flash to novel length
pscwillis.com
Etienne Domingue @akhuan.bsky.social 🏳️🌈 he/they; il/iel
BAs (Religion, Psych); MA (Contemporary Religion). Queer Québecois heritage & hermeneutics enthusiast on unceded W8banaki land.
Aime: folk, punk, RPGs, comics.
Déteste: AI, warmongers & their apologists.
“Swim until you can’t see land.”
Nick Jowett @jowettnick.bsky.social Retired Vicar in Sheffield. Writes novels (2nd just completed), stories, hymns, also material for Church Action on Poverty. Loves Haydn.
Priya Lalvani @priya-lalvani.bsky.social Professor of disability studies and inclusive education. Cynical psychologist. Interests: anti-ableism curriculum, narrative identity, motherhood and disability.
Vygotsky was right about everything!
Tony Dunnell @tonydunnell.bsky.social Writer of fact and fiction ( #scifi mainly, some horror). English but living in the high jungle of Peru. Short stories published in Escape Pod, Fusion Fragment, Fission, Sci Phi Journal and more. I also post about #movies. https://tonydunnell.com/
Dr Ben Wilkinson-Turnbull (He/They) 🏳️🌈 @benwt.bsky.social Literary Historian. Working on Women's Writing, Book History, Material Culture, Dig Hums, Race, & Heritage.
Senior RA and PI, 'The Remarkable History of Barley Wood' @bristolunienglish.bsky.social
RA, 'Inclusive Histories', @royalholloway.bsky.social
Saga Press Books @sagapressbooks.bsky.social The science fiction, fantasy, horror, and speculative fiction imprint of @SimonandSchuster 
Benjamín Schultz-Figueroa @benjaminschultzfig.bsky.social Associate Professor of Film and Media Studies at Seattle University. Author of The Celluloid Specimen: Moving Image Research into Animal Life available from UC Press here:
https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520342347/the-celluloid-specimen
Vikki C. @vikkicwrites.bsky.social
IN THE BLUEPRINT OF HER IRIS 2nd edition (IceFloe Press 2026)
WHERE SANDS RUN FINEST (DarkWinter Press 2024)
Bridport Prize 2025 shortlist.
Pushcart, Forward Prize, BOTN, Best Spiritual Lit nominee
Guest Editor: IceFloe Press
linktr.ee/vikki_c._author
Russell Williams @rwilliamsparis.bsky.social Associate Prof of Comparative Literature and English, The American University of Paris; French Editor, The Times Literary Supplement. Thinking about French Weird.
Carrie Chappell @chapp010.bsky.social Poet | Translator | Researcher | Bessettienne. Loving Tallulah Bankhead (Paris Heretics 2022). Quarantine Daybook (Bottlecap 2021). PhD at CY Cergy Paris Université. She/her.
IG: @chapp010
Michael Hannon @michaelhannon.bsky.social Philosopher at the University of Nottingham.
Director of the Aristotelian Society. 
Tobias Rosefeldt @rosefeldt.bsky.social Philosophie HU-Berlin, @RosefeldtTobias
Jonathan Tallant @jonathantallant.bsky.social Professor of Philosophy | Arts Faculty Associate PVC Education and Student Experience, Uni of Nottingham | https://jonathantallant.com/home