Simon Harper @onesharper.bsky.social Web/UX, writer, comedy/music nerd & uncle. Lapsed cynic smiling politely. Like cult music/radio/TV/film/books/art & sport. Beard growth comes in 3 colours.
Özge Lena @lenaozge.bsky.social International poet. | Published across six continents. | Oxford Climate Society | #Catapoetics | #Catastrocene
Jason @jmlowrey.bsky.social (They/he, prefer they 🏳️⚧️ Pan/queer) Herein lies writing, reading, and fountain pens. Pretty much in that order. With a splash of tea.
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Berthold Gambrel @bertholdgambrel.bsky.social Blogger and author.
This Is Done By Humans @thisisdonebyhumans.bsky.social Welcome to Done By Humans, a certification entity where businesses, organizations and individuals can self-certify and get a badge of recognition that their product/service/art is human-made without generative AI.
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Jonathan Walker @newishpuritan.bsky.social Ex-historian of Venice, writer, editor. Author of The Angels of L19, Push Process (a novel with photographs), and other books. (Banner image by Dan Hallett.)
jonathanwalkerwriter.uk
jonwalkereditorial.co.uk
jonathanwalkersblog.blogspot.com
Jantar @jantarbooks.bsky.social Publisher of European fiction and poetry. Please buy our books in independent bookshops or postage-free, world-wide online at
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Arachne Press @arachnepress.bsky.social Small independent, inclusive, award-winning UK publishing house. Mostly poetry and short fiction, with the occasional fantasy/sci-fi novel. Prioritising LGBTQ+, Global Majority, Disabled, Welsh poets, and geographically isolated and Older Women writers.
Inpress Books 📚 @inpressbooks.bsky.social Reaching readers on behalf of 50+ independent publishers. Funded by Arts Council England. Follow us on socials @inpressbooks📚 linktr.ee/inpressbooks 
Lulu Allison @luluallison.bsky.social Artist, maker, author. MDANT.
Happenstance and holy smoke
Chris Lovegrove 💙📚 @calmgrove.bsky.social 🇪🇺 📚 🎹 🏛️
Woke European, book review blogger, piano accompanist, culture vulture.
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Noémi Kiss-Deáki @noemikissdeaki.bsky.social MARY AND THE RABBIT DREAM (Galley Beggar Press & Coach House Books). Short fiction: surely mag, The Selkie, Lunate, Substack. https://open.substack.com/pub/noemikissdeaki?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=1jtx96
Ben L-C @benglc.bsky.social Comedy, storytelling, Buffy, that sort of thing
(he/him)
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Perfused With Signs / Paradoxographorum Reliquiae @perfusedwithsigns.bsky.social Jackdaws flitting through the echoing halls of an ill-furnished mind.
Editorial/admin @bibliorefuses
Paradoxography at sites.google.com/site/paradoxography/
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Matthew Parkinson-Bennett @matthewpb.bsky.social Publisher, Little Island Books @littleislandbooks.bsky.social. The best new Irish writing for young readers.
Patrick Cash @paddycash.bsky.social Writer | Working on a novel ‘Fireworks’ | Creative Future 2024 Platinum Short Fiction | Hachette Grow Your Story 2024 | Felicity Bryan New Voices 2024 
Mark Bowles @markabowles.bsky.social Writer. All My Precious Madness published by Galley Beggar 2024; Goldsmiths Prize Shortlist, Authors Club Prize Shortlist, James Tait Black Prize shortlist. How Do People Stay the Same published 2026, Galley Beggar.
https://www.creativewritingtuition.com/
Skein Press @skeinpress.bsky.social Independent publisher of stories underrepresented in Irish literature
📚Contentious Spaces by Rosaleen McDonagh & The Posthumous Book of Shahrazad by Raquel Menéndez trans by Robin Munby
🎤In the Half Light:Voices from Black Ireland curated by Phil Mullen
Bullaun Press @bullaunpress.bsky.social New independent publisher. Ireland's first press dedicated to literature in translation.
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Waterstones Leicester Highcross @waterstoneslhx.bsky.social We love books, dogs in bookshops, and customers who laugh at our jokes
A.C. Harper (he/him) @harperac.bsky.social 🏳️⚧️ Transgender Author
📚 Hi, My Name Is Alex: https://a.co/d/0fD7INpf
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Joe @josephdoconnor.bsky.social Putting words in different places
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/
Jane @janecornwell.bsky.social This is my fun account. 📚🐾🕊🏴
Work: Janes-Studio
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Free on KU or 99p/c.
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Hannah Nicholson 🦭 🖤🩶🤍💜🇵🇸 @tooriekep.bsky.social Scottish Book Trust New Writers Awardee 2021. She / her / hers / shö. Shetlander in Aberdeen. Writer, library assistant, archivist, book and music enthusiast, views my own because who else's would they be? https://linktr.ee/tooriekep
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Anoushka @spittingyarn.bsky.social Boooooks. Writing.
Neurodiverse family.
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Lawrence Moore @lawrencemoore.bsky.social Poet. Pushcart, Forward nominated.
This Joyful Interlude out now with @janes-studio.bsky.social 🕊️
UK link: amazon.co.uk/dp/1068432330
Vegan, BLM
Translating Women @translatingwomen.bsky.social Helen Vassallo 🇲🇹
Researching the translated literature sector of the UK publishing industry
Writing about intersectional gender bias in translation
Translating women writers
Always learning
https://sites.exeter.ac.uk/translatingwomen/
Robin Oak @robinjoak.bsky.social He/they
🔞
Making worlds with words and fighting with my brain.
Writing SFF & Romance with elements of horror and erotica. Reposts NSFW. Queer. ND. Welsh.
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BLOG https://akornboi.wordpress.com
Alys Wilfred Earl @alysdragon.bsky.social Writer, aesthete, reprobate.
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Has sword, will travel. They/them.
Fiona Mossman @fionamossman.bsky.social she/her
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Find me at https://www.fionamossman.com
Dr. Bethany Qualls @bethanyqualls.bsky.social PhD in #18thC gossip. Recent postdoc at l'Université de Caen. Writer. Editor. Re(un)Covered Podcast Creator. Lover of archives, book history, #c18 smut, snark, intersectional scholarship, and the Oxford comma. Feminist. Bethanyqualls.com she/her/elle
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Irish Literary Times @irishlittimes.bsky.social Promoting Irish writers and writing - maintained by Gerard Beirne
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Laura Kate Dale - LauraKBuzz @laurakbuzz.bsky.social Play-Ability Cognitive Expert. Accessibility (LiS: Double Exposure) / Cultural Consultant (Dragon Age: The Veilguard). Podquisition. Access-Ability. Author. 2024 Journalism Impact Winner. 2024 GA Conf Best PR / Comms Winner.
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Graeme Richardson @ravoon.bsky.social Poetry Critic for the Sunday Times. Anglican Priest. Poetry Collection, "Dirt Rich", out from Carcanet. TLS contributor since 2010. All views very much my own.
Kevin Gardner @kg520.bsky.social Editor, anthologist, reviewer, professor. Alexander Pope | John Betjeman | contemporary poetry. 
orlandolovekill @orlandolovekill.bsky.social Quite annoyed. Generally found talking to squirrels, cats, crows & dogs. Bit of cancer. Wee stoma. Capable of nihilistic love-making to the sound of Stock, Aitken, and Waterman. Oxford commas, impotence, and rusty anarchy. Black coffee. Grungey MDANT.
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Teresa Tumminello Brader @ttbrader.bsky.social Reader; tea adept; New Orleanian🖤⚜️ writer: LETTING IN AIR & LIGHT https://bellepointpress.com/products/letting-in-air-and-light; SECRET KEEPERS https://bellepointpress.com/products/secret-keepers Find the homes of my other words at https://teresabrader.com
Benedict Sangster @benedictsangster.bsky.social Writer, Norwich, UK. Lover of all animals. Books and nothing else
benedictsangster.com
Paul Handley @paulhandley1973.bsky.social Chief bookworm at (currently hibernating) Bearded Badger Publishing… loves me a little music too! Talks like a yam yam, exiled in Derbyshire!
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@epoquepress.bsky.social @epoquepress.bsky.social époque press is an independent publisher of contemporary literary fiction - books you will love to read.
King Jack Strong 🇺🇦 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️ @kingjackstrong.bsky.social Drag king, S1 veteran of Ukraine's International Legion, writer. Civilian name Evelyn Aschenbrenner. Nonbinary they/them; ono/jejgo PL.
https://linktr.ee/jack.strong
Prof. Liz Oakley-Brown @earlymodlancs.bsky.social Educator
Passionate about Equality, Diversity & Inclusion (EDI)
Anywhere near Books, Music and Films
#SurfaceStudies
#Soil_Imaginaries
Adores Snails 🐌
My personal views - not my employer's
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Rod Mannix #WritingCommunity @rodmannix.bsky.social Writer 📝 Gladly reposting publication news for the writing community.
Also see: @writingcommunity.bsky.social
@literarybulletin.bsky.social
@literarycommunity.bsky.social
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The Bee @beelitmag.bsky.social A home for working-class readers and writers
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Susannah Walker @susannahwalker.bsky.social Author + campaigner for gender equality and safety in public space + post-war graphics + other stuff.
Rants about stately homes here:
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Co-founder of @makespaceforgirls and formerly @QuadRoyal
Small Robots @smolrobots.bsky.social here are some drawings of helpful small robots for you #SmallRobotsRemastered
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Nonbinary. Pronoun agnostic. 🏳️⚧️
John Mitchinson @johnmitchinson.bsky.social Writer, co-host of Backlisted, writer for Byline Times, former publisher.
Julie Warren @vathenauk.bsky.social Essex-dwelling bibliophile, tyrophile, oenophile & philewordsphile. Author of 'It's All in the Mind: The Life and Legacy of Larry Stephens'.
Mat Pringle @matpringle.bsky.social Illustrator, Printmaker and Arts Facilitator.
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Rebekah Pierre @bekahpierre.bsky.social Deputy Director - Article 39
Care Experienced Author & Campaigner
OUT NOW - Free Loaves on Fridays: The Care System as Told by People who Actually Get It:
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Sophie Pierce @smpierce.bsky.social Author: The Green Hill, a memoir about the sudden death of my son Felix. Rock Idols, a guide to Dartmoor in 28 tors; various wild swimming guides.
Co-organiser, Dartmoor Tors Festival 1-4 May 2026
https://linktr.ee/sophiepierce
Marie Phillips @mariephillips.bsky.social Writer of Gods Behaving Badly, Warhorses of Letters and more. This American Life contributor.
Free newsletter (dormant) at mariephillips.beehiiv.com
Dr Liz O’Riordan @lizoriordan.bsky.social Professional Speaker - Author - Breast Surgeon with Breast Cancer
www.liz.oriordan.co.uk
Joel Morris @gralefrit.bsky.social Writer & highwayman.
Ladybird, Cunk, Wipe, Be Funny Or Die, Framley, Candidate band, Comfort Blanket, Broken Veil etc
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Sanjana Modha @sanjanafeasts.bsky.social 🎥Your resident Indian cooking mama 🌟Learn with me on TikTok & IG: Sanjana.Feasts 📚 My cookbook, Sanjana Feasts is out now www.sanjanafeasts.co.uk
Rosemary Mac Cabe @rosemarymaccabe.bsky.social Writer, podcaster, reluctant child-wrangler. Irish in Indiana. Author of the bestselling memoir, This is Not About You.
Read my thoughts on life in the US, new (ish) motherhood, money and more at rosemarymaccabe.substack.com
Daniel Hardcastle @handle.invalid 📖 Bestselling Author of 'Fuck Yeah, Video Games'
📝 Writer of 'The Paradox Paradox'
💙 Dr Who writer: bigfinish.com
🩶 Married to my best friend @mrrebecca.co.uk
🎮 He/Him | 🔗 https://nerdcubed.co.uk
Paul David Gould @pauldavidgould.bsky.social Author: Last Dance at the Disco for Deviants, a state-of #Russia novel/ #LGBT #thriller set in 1990s Moscow | buy @bookshop-org-uk.bsky.social | alum @unibirmingham.bsky.social + @faberacademy.bsky.social | #Brighton based | sub-editor @financialtimes.com
Paul Gannon @paultbg.bsky.social Author of 'Colossus: Bletchley Park's Greatest Secret' and 'Before Bletchley Park: The Codebreakers of World War I' (Tomlinson prize honourable mention for best WWI book in English 2020)
www.paulgannonbooks.co.uk
Alice Fraser @alicefraser.bsky.social Writing. Comedy. Podcasts.
Book: http://bit.ly/4uban5W
🎙️: Realms Unknown; The Gargle; The Bugle; Tea With Alice
Join my Writers Meetings: http://buff.ly/3eFIs8x
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Rob Dwiar @robdwiar.bsky.social Managing Editor, TechRadar Gaming @techradar | Games, gardens, golf, & West Ham | RHS gold medal-winning garden designer
Alex de Campi @alexdecampi.bsky.social On your bookshelf: THE SCOTTISH BOY, REVERSAL, PARASOCIAL, BAD KARMA. On your TV: BLADE RUNNER: BLACK LOTUS, SCAVENGERS REIGN. Lit: Paula Weiman at Ash Literary. Film/TV: Sean Berard @ Untitled. Newsletter: https://buttondown.com/themagpie . She/her/Mother
Gareth Cooper @strangecolours.bsky.social Earth, Technoethics, Mental Health, Urban Communities • 🇪🇺🇺🇦 • GCU (eccentric)
James Goss @gossjam.bsky.social Writer and audio drama producer living in a cave in Turkey so you don't have to. Hickson in the streets, Rutherford in the sheets. 
Liz Ditz Still masking @lizditz.bsky.social Trans rights are human rights. None of us are safe until all of us are safe. Dyslexia, autism, vaccines work. She/her. 
Sean Flinn @seanflinn.bsky.social Writer, human, uncle, recuperative multi-generic hybrid, obliterated romantic, scribbling, managing crap health stuff, steps and swims at a time. Saw the NBA fall, in another life. London. Home is a WIP, with Shelves, No Commercial Value. It hurts. Always.
Wizard of Silly Town @notadonutshop.bsky.social 28 | He/Him | My name’s Duncan and I’m a writer who needs to write more. Also a big ol’ nerd
David Frew @drvon2.bsky.social Are you really thinking of following me? Check my LIKES tab first, You probably won't like it.
I am a yoga enthusiast, project manager & cynic.
Formerly London based, I 'moved' to Amsterdam to avoid UK age restrictions (giving my personal dets to EPIC.)
Ian Brownlie @ianbrownlie.bsky.social Writer of poetry/fiction for children/adults | Fiction: Times/CH LL | Poems: Dirigible, Tyger Tyger, Little Thoughts, The Toy | SHINE, streetcake, Audi Locus | Pushcart nom '26 | he/him
John Isles @selsijohn.bsky.social Co-host of @idontdoscifi.bsky.social podcast & @tripodscast.bsky.social Fan of Doctor Who, Star Trek/Wars, B7, B5, and more! Once described as the inspiration for Eugene Victor Tooms in The X Files!
Dale Smith @dalesmithonline.com Writer of things mostly about #DoctorWho and infrequent conversationalist. Also works with #Drupal / #PHP
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I don't have access to DMs.
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Mike Trinder @chthonicionic.bsky.social He/Him. B3ta QOTW person and programmer at http://www.millerhare.com. This is my personal a/c - at the moment I don’t have a separate work a/c. I’m also at @chthonicionic@mastodon.online
Sue Davies @suedavies7of9.bsky.social Reader, reviewer, human.
Ferg @seelertod.bsky.social he/they
Damsel in disgrace
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Dee Cunniffe @deezoid.bsky.social Colorist: BRZRKR: Fallen Empire, The Displaced (BOOM!) Sensational She-Hulk, Joe Fixit, DareDevil: Woman without fear (Marvel) Indigo Children, Bad Karma (Image) House of El. Co-colorist of 2023 Eisner winning Barnstormers (Dark Horse)
Elena Gaillard @elenagaillard.bsky.social Orchid enthusiast, SFF reader, fantasy writer, graphic designer, knitter, birdwatcher, wine drinker, nasty woman. She/her. 
Zebedee’s Mom @zebedeesmom.bsky.social Pet parent, avid reader, apathetic gardener, over 40, out of forks, very very tired
Emma Berquist @emmaberquist.bsky.social an outlaw by the name of Texas Red
writer/book shelver/final girl
books: DEVILS UNTO DUST, MISSING PRESUMED DEAD
Joyce Reynolds-Ward @joycereynoldsward.bsky.social Writer of speculative fiction from the wide open spaces. Dispenser of horse cookies to the fancy-stepping Marker-boi. Former special ed teacher. #SFWA
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Sam Leith @questingvole.bsky.social @spectator lit ed. “Clock-white, still friendly to the earth.” https://bit.ly/TheHauntedWood
King Hobnob @kinghobnob.bsky.social He/Him..I think
Go check out my wonderful girlfriends art over at https://bsky.app/profile/arthavibi.bsky.social
Katharine Quarmby @katharineq.bsky.social Writer, editor, journalist: https://muckrack.com/katharine-quarmby; Shortlisted, New Angle Prize for Literature 2025, for historical novel The Low Road; literary agent, non-fiction, Andrew Lownie; website: katharinequarmby.com.
Rebecca Maughan @mrrebecca.co.uk Sunday Times Best Selling Illustrator. Software Engineer.
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Making art for @nerdcubed.co.uk
Enby (They/Them) Autistic
A sensitive artiste can't get a moment's peace.
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Kevin F. Quinn @kevfquinn.bsky.social Mostly harmless. He/him.
vi, spaces, and the Oxford comma.
GenX, born at 325ppm.
Hastings, UK.
ALT avatar: Egyptian goose
ALT banner: four Canadian Geese
M. Scott Boone @mscottboone.bsky.social Law professor: IP, Law & Tech, Property, Legal Ethics, Legal Ed—especially interested in law that affects authors and artists
Unredeemable soccer fanatic—you’ve been warned
Matt Aytch Taylor @matthtaylor.com matthtaylor.com | m.taylor.productions@gmail.com | He/They | Comics & Illustration
Localized Maritime Disaster
🚫 AI
Lotta Fjelkegård @lottassociala.bsky.social Mostly a lurker. Busy reading and learning. Nature. Comics. Books. Science. Bossed around by two juvenile cats. (Disaster pair!) Tries to be as kind as possible. Sometimes I succeed. (she/her)
No longer active on Twitter.
Doctora Malka Older @older.bsky.social nerd with narrative disorder • humanitarian • sociopunk • evidence-based creativity • speculative resistance • predictive fictions • INFOMOCRACY • THE MIMICKING OF KNOWN SUCCESSES • …AND OTHER DISASTERS • GlobalVoices.org • opinions my own
TheManxMissile @themanxmissile.bsky.social Film Fanatic, Food Lover, Sports Fan, General Geeky Type
Charles Snart (Histocrat) @thehistocrat.bsky.social Gnawing at the walls. 37. They/Them. Was a mediocre scientist now a mediocre youtuber.
No. of people Pathologic-pilled: 5
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Mr.louis.king @mrlouisking.bsky.social MSt, writer, disaster. Twitch's best rat dad. Known on YouTube as Octavius. Replacing @octav1usking from the bird site.
Sioned @stiniog34.bsky.social Llyfrau, cerddoriaeth, gwleidyddiaeth, yr amgylchedd, hinsawdd a natur, coginio a chathod | | Books, music, politics, the environment, climate and nature, cooking and cats.
Mags L Halliday @magslhalliday.bsky.social Writer. Waffler. Former redhead. Occasional public sector comms person. All views my own.
Currently open to commissions about women, history, or the built environment.
She/Her.
www.magslhalliday.co.uk or https://linktr.ee/magslhalliday
Katie da Cunha Lewin @kdclewin.bsky.social Writing + teaching. The Writer's Room OUT NOW; new project on professionalism and amateurism. Co-editor of @c21literature.bsky.social
Rep @charlotteseymour.bsky.social. kdclewin.com
Talys @tempestalysm.bsky.social 🌈Queer✨ 30+, White.
Writing, Felting, Gaming, Plants, & Resin crafts 🦔
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