Ali Mercer @alimercerwriter.bsky.social Here but not here. Often sleepy and mildly baffled. Late adopter. Jotter-downer. Onetime diary keeper. Writes stuff. Sometimes cannot then read it back, especially when have tried to keep secret by using rusty shorthand. Likes tea. 
Elizabeth McCracken @elizmccrack.bsky.social Complete fiction
Marina Benjamin @marinabenjamin.bsky.social Writer. Editor at Aeon. Midlife trilogy (Middlepause, Insomnia, A Little Give) &c. Essays in Granta, Aeon, Paris Review. New work cooking. Rep Rebecca Carter
Adam Becker @adambecker.bsky.social Journalist & astrophysicist. Host, @dreamingagainstthemachine.com. New book: MORE EVERYTHING FOREVER, about broken futures pushed by tech billionaires. Words in the Atlantic, NPR, NYT, the Guardian, BBC, SciAm, Fortune, etc. He/him. Signal: adambecker.84
Elle Cordova @ellecordova.bsky.social A nerd at large. Writer. Musician.
Sometimes funny. 🏳️🌈
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Paul M. Cray @pmc.bsky.social 'A plain, unvarnished Preston man.' Permanent resident alien in Seattle, Wash. Writer, AGI researcher, wine industry professional. Interests: books, futurology, historiographic metafiction, sf, technoeconomic paradigm shifts, the Technological Singularity
Plashing Vole @plashingvole.bsky.social Mild-mannered lecturer by day…mild-mannered lecturer by night. Welsh lit, politicians’ fictions. Fencer, cyclist, UCU. Dysgwr Cymraeg; tá gaeilge agam. Barnau fy hun.
Read books; join unions; block cookies.
University of Mordor.
JL Bogenschneider @bourgnetstogner.bsky.social Shy retirer. Short fiction. Content repeater
Recent work in Helter Skelter, Ragaire, The Stinging Fly and The Pig's Back
Shortlisted for some stuff. Blacklisted for others
Stephen Kinsella @stephenstroud.bsky.social Ex EU Antitrust Lawyer
Chair: Laura Kinsella Foundation, Law For Change, Clean Up The Internet and Press Justice Project;
Board member: Hacked Off and Reprieve;
Big Issue Top 100 Changemaker 2025
Director, Stroud Book Festival
Jill Walker Rettberg @jilltxt.bsky.social Co-Director at Center for Digital Narrative, Univ of Bergen. Lead research project AI STORIES (ERC Advanced Grant). Australian and Norwegian. Blogging at jilltxt.net since 2000.
Lizzy @lizzycampbell.bsky.social Professional book nerd working in publishing. Fangirl. Northerner. Singer. Cyclist. Occasional Elizabeth. Never Liz. She/her. 🏳️🌈 💜🖤🩶
@maulkat.bsky.social @maulkat.bsky.social 
Maxine Roper @maxinefrances.bsky.social Writer 📚 Voiceover & Audiobooks 🎙️
NO HEELS, NO PROBLEM: A Neurodivergent Survival Guide To Adult Life When You’re Dyspraxic or ADHD - out now.
WORDS FOR OCCASIONS: 🆕 wordsforoccasions.etsy.com
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Tony Tassell @tonytassell.bsky.social Financial Opinion Editor at the FT. I have views. A spotter of things in markets, companies, world affairs. Also interested in food and climbing. 
swadeshine☀️ @swadeshine.bsky.social Wade Aaron Inganamort · sf writer · gardener · student of Buddhist philosophy · friend to all cats📍FL #amwriting · #Booksky📚💙
Iamrobhughes @iamrobhughes.bsky.social Common Reader. 
Emma Kinsley @kinsleywrites.bsky.social Writer, editor, proofreader, and book nerd.
Specializing in romance, fantasy, speculative fiction, and more.
She/her. DMs currently closed. Watch this space!
June Caldwell @junec.bsky.social Writing Place, Writing Planet, UCD & iCRAG 2026 | Lamplight Fellowship 2025 | Literature Bursary Award 2025 | Moth Short Story Prize 2024 | 'Somebody' exhibition, MoLi 2020-2021 | 📖 Room Little Darker 2018/17 | https://papervisualart.com/product/pva-17/
Bookshelfie ⭐️ @bookshelfie.bsky.social The Self-Pub Hub (Book Review and Story Site)
Submissions open now:
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Book tour inquiries: contact@book-shelfie.com
Bauhausian @bauhausian.bsky.social Exploring the world of Bauhaus—where form follows function. Join to delve into modern art, design, and architecture. Celebrating simplicity, functionality, and geometric beauty. #Bauhaus #Design #Art #Architecture
https://www.bauhausian.com
Stuart Evers @stuartevers.bsky.social Writer, reviewer, Columbo enthusiast
P T Lacy @ptlacy.bsky.social Author seeking representation. EFL Teacher. Englishman in Poland (he/him). Cat dad. Movie lover. Blogger. All shall worship me and despair?
Debut novel: https://books2read.com/unregistered
Blog: https://from-the-smallest-desk.ghost.io- A Alice Jolly @alicejolly.bsky.social Winner of the 2026 Walter Scott prize for 'The Matchbox Girl' (about Dr Asperger) published by Bloomsbury Books in 2025. Rep'd by Eleanor Birne at Rogers, Coleridge, White. Oxford University whistleblower. Active member of Just Stop Oil.
Summer Brennan @summerbrennan.bsky.social Award-winning writer and Orion Book Award finalist. American in Paris. Books: THE OYSTER WAR; HIGH HEEL. Next: THE PARISIAN SPHINX, A TRUE TALE OF ART & OBSESSION. Leonard Cohen blew me a kiss one time.
Substack: https://www.awritersnotebook.org/
Adam Rutherford @adamrutherford.bsky.social I had a marvellous time ruining everything.
Professor of Genetics @UCL, Public Humanities Fellow @SAS. Ex-President of @Humanists_UK Genetics, race, eugenics, books, cricket, +–=÷×
@kbjmanagement
adamrutherford.com
Eugenie Todd @eugeniesediting.bsky.social Freelance copyeditor for Penguin Random House and Canongate. Wife, mother, dog-wrangler and forgetful gardener, Fife.
Preslav Rachev @preslav.me Creator of @murmel.social and @feedle.world. I believe in building software that fosters discourse on the open web:
Also an avid writer and hobby photographer.
My posts are in EN 🇬🇧, BG 🇧🇬, and DE 🇩🇪
Find me online on https://preslav.me.
Goldsmiths Prize @goldsmithsprize.bsky.social The literary prize rewarding mould-breaking fiction, launched and run by Goldsmiths UoL in association with the New Statesman
https://www.gold.ac.uk/goldsmiths-prize/
Aeon Magazine @aeon.co Aeon is a magazine of ideas and culture. Visit aeon.co for more.
CSMV, St Mary's Convent Wantage @csmv-wantage.bsky.social Following in the tradition of hospitality at The Community of St Mary the Virgin, we invite guests to our Retreat Wing for worship, rest and reflection.
https://linktr.ee/csmv_stmarysconvent
Sofie Hagen @sofiehagen.bsky.social Comedian. Author. Podcaster.
sofiehagen.com/newsletter for hot goss straight to your inbox.
Adam Sharp @adamcsharp.bsky.social 1. Writer (https://www.adamsharp.me/)
2. Obsessed with lists
3. COMMON PEOPLE
4. THE CORRECT ORDER OF BISCUITS
5. THE WHEEL IS SPINNING BUT THE HAMSTER IS DEAD (http://geni.us/yDxa)
Phelim Kelly, London @phelimkellycom.bsky.social 😍: 🇪🇺 HowToEnjoy.eu
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cumbria, ealing, faroe, gib, hungary, spain
Andrew Gallix @andrewgallix.bsky.social New novel, Loren Ipsum (Dodo Ink), available now. Editor-in-Chief, 3:AM Magazine. Represented by @sarahsuch.bsky.social at the Sarah Such Literary Agency
Website: https://andrewgallix.com/
James Bailey @drjamesbailey.bsky.social Writer from Manchester. LIKE A CAT LOVES A BIRD, my biography of Muriel Spark, out now! 🐈⬛
https://lnk.to/LikeaCatLovesaBird
Instagram.com/drjamesbailey
William Gibson @greatdismal.bsky.social Author of Neuromancer and, most recently, Agency (still above from “Kill Switch”, The X-Files, Season 5, Episode 11, co-written with Tom Maddox)
Dan Liebke @liebcricket.com funny cricket > good cricket
(non-cricket stuff at @danliebke.com)
Centre for the Sciences of Place and Memory @memoryplace.bsky.social Anchored in philosophy @stir.ac.uk
Researching place & memory
across cognitive sciences, social sciences & the arts
Led by @suttonprofessor.bsky.social & @reaveyp.bsky.social
Funded by @leverhulme.ac.uk
placememory.net
John Sutton @suttonprofessor.bsky.social Director, Centre for the Sciences of Place & Memory, Stirling Uni, Scotland. Skill, memory, embodied cognition, philosophy, cognitive history, cricket, music, collaboration, wayfinding. Leverhulme International Prof: johnsutton.net & placememory.net
Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social A reader-funded newspaper that truly sits outside the established system and answers only to the public.
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Visit our website: bylinetimes.com
Katie Ward @katiewardwriter.bsky.social Neuroscience novel PATHWAYS, Fleet (UK 2024). Art novel GIRL READING, Virago (UK 2011). Award-winning author. katieward.co.uk
#WolseyWriters creative writing at New Wolsey Theatre, Ipswich, Suffolk wolseytheatre.co.uk/whats-on/ 
Martin Shaw @thebooksdesk.bsky.social Literary agent @shawliterary.bsky.social, formerly head book buyer at Readings Books, Melbourne. Kafka, Sebald, the Antipodes.
Sam Sacks @ssacks.bsky.social Fiction critic at the Wall Street Journal (https://www.wsj.com/news/author/sam-sacks); editor at Open Letters Review, formerly Open Letters Monthly (https://openlettersreview.com/) sam_sacks [at] hotmail
Jen Calleja @jencalleja.bsky.social Wrote FAIR / GOBLINHOOD / VEHICLE / DUST SUCKER, translate German lit, publish Maltese lit at Praspar Press. Tutor, Granta Writers’ Workshop. www.jencalleja.com
Ed Zitron @edzitron.com British, But In Las Vegas and NYC
ezitron.76 Sig
Newsletter - wheresyoured.at
https://linktr.ee/betteroffline - podcast w/ iheartradio
Chosen by god, perfected by science
CEO at EZPR.com
MꙬse Allain @mooseallain.bsky.social Historically inaccurate
He/him
https://www.mooseallain.co.uk
Simon Harding @simonharding.bsky.social Author of Ancient Tide and Enduring Tide. Novelist, children’s author, pun collector and rhyme tinkerer.
Now leading Fableration: a new chapter in publishing.
Cristín Leach @cristinleach.bsky.social Irish Writer. Art Critic. Author, art/divorce memoir Negative Space; RHA From Ten Till Dusk. Fiction, non-fiction, journalism: RTÉ Culture, Irish Arts Review, Winter Papers. Hybrid texts, collaborations. 20yrs ✍🏻 Sunday Times. https://linktr.ee/cristinleach
@mh-nurse2020.bsky.social @mh-nurse2020.bsky.social 
Mary Hughes @omlawreyn.bsky.social Totally without fame and influence, but interested in surviving. Live in the Rhondda, think complexity and reflection addresses much and simple, fatuous assertions solve very little. Creativity is survival, the greater good is why.
derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social Menswear writer. Editor at Put This On. Words at The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Financial Times, Esquire, and Mr. Porter.
If you have a style question, search:
https://dieworkwear.com/ | https://putthison.com/start-here/
Ollie Randall @ollie-randall.bsky.social Writer and cartoonist. Author of Writers in Whites: https://fairfieldbooks.co.uk/shop/writers-in-whites/
Rose Ruane @regretteruane.bsky.social Artist, writer, sweetheart, battleaxe, she/her
Novels This Is Yesterday & Birding with Corsair Books
Rep: Becky Thomas at Lewinsohn Literary
Chair of The Adamson Collection Trust: work created in the art therapy studio at Netherne hospital during the C20th
excog @excog.bsky.social
"I do not think therefore I am a moustache"
Sartre, La Nausée, 1938
Interests:
art, art history, culture, film/photography, history, music, science, sociology, comparative religion, technology, current affairs.
* adferoafferro.wordpress.com
Jake Morris-Campbell @jakecampbell88.bsky.social Writer & Poet
'Between the salt and the ash: a journey into the soul of Northumbria' (MUP, March 2025)
https://manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526175373/
Michael Caines @michaelcaines.bsky.social 
@scrabble69.bsky.social @scrabble69.bsky.social 
Paula Coston @paulacostonwriter.bsky.social Writer of fiction spotlighting the lives of women, single women, older women, childless women, single older women, single childless women, single older childless women ... well, you get the idea
Bodleian Libraries @bodleian.ox.ac.uk Amazing collections and breath-taking libraries. Facilitating research at the University of Oxford.
Readers: www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk
Visitors: visit.bodleian.ox.ac.uk
Magdalena Donea | 🇷🇴 🇬🇷 🏳️🌈 ♿️ @maggy.kia.net Former refugee. Abolitionist. Old-school net.person. UW MA Cultural Studies. UCSD PhD (in progress) Comm/STS. Surveillance, unbelonging & mediation of displacement. Unprecedentedness and crisis. Critical Data, AI, DH, maps, archives. She/They/Any
The Onion @theonion.com America’s Finest News Source. A @globaltetrahedron.bsky.social subsidiary.
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Lynn Cherny @arnicas.bsky.social Into creative ML/AI, NLP, data science and digital humanities, narrative, infovis, games, sf & f. Consultant, ds in Residence at Google Arts & Culture. (Lyon, FR) Newsletter arnicas.substack.com.
Sam Rutherford (he/him) @echomikeromeo.bsky.social Lecturer in LGBTQ+ History/History of Sexuality, University of Glasgow.
I wrote this book: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/teaching-gender-9780198937494
Tim @timrowe.org Consciousness Explorer. Radionics Practitioner. Musician.
Based in SE London.
Music: https://soundcloud.com/innervox
Manchester University Press @manchesterup.bsky.social We believe in books that promote positive change and enrich culture.
Sign up to the MUP newsletter & receive 30% off all orders.
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Luke Kennard @lukekennard.bsky.social Novelist, poet, lecturer at University of Birmingham. Latest novel BLACK BAG out March 12th 2026.
https://linktr.ee/lukekennard
Katie @dryadula.bsky.social Library worker and student. Multi-genre reader. Parent. No genAI.
Sally March @withacnotans.bsky.social Works in HE communications in Cambridge.
History, current affairs, maps and random facts. Quizzer. Arch-procrastinator.
Too many books, not enough time.
Jonathan Gibbs @jonathangibbs.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing at City St George's, Uni of London. I curate the short story project apersonalanthology.com. Novels are Randall or The Painted Grape, and The Large Door. Poetry is Spring Journal. https://linktr.ee/jonathangibbs
Keiron Pim @keironpim.bsky.social Author, nonfiction writing tutor, editor, proofreader. Out now in paperback, Endless Flight: the Genius and Tragedy of Joseph Roth (Granta). Agent: @thehamiltonagency.bsky.social 
Laura J @dodoruf.bsky.social Design researcher with a murky background in international affairs and women’s rights.
Daniel King @kin.gy Software man and pamphleteer.
Probably the most famous of all WIZARDS.
Brandy O’Briant @brandyo71.bsky.social 54. American in England. Beagle mom. Writer. Literary fiction. MFA. INFJ.
Shortlist, The Virginia Prize for Fiction
Finalist, Wildhouse Fiction Prize
Longlist, Mslexia Novel Award
Honourable Mention, Craft Literary 1st Chapters
brandyobriant.com
C.D. Rose @cdrose.bsky.social Writer of stories. 'We Live Here Now.' 'Walter Benjamin Stares at the Sea,' 'The Blind Accordionist,' 'Who's Who When Everyone is Someone Else,' 'The Biographical Dictionary of Literary Failure.' (@melvillehouse.bsky.social)
Gavin Cologne-Brookes @cologneg.bsky.social Emeritus Professor, author of books on William Styron, Joyce Carol Oates, and Bruce Springsteen. Portraits from Paris (LSU Press, 2025).
Annabookbel @annabookbel.bsky.social Book lover, blogging about them since 2008! Oxford environs. Blog: https://annabookbel.net/. Proud Co-founder of https://shinynewbooks.co.uk/
Richard James Foster @richardjamesfoster.bsky.social Artist & writer. History & art buff. Museum of Photocopies. Quietus. Guardian. Observer. Louder than War. WORM, Rotterdam. Leiden. Write about music, NL, & my family history. #MDANT. 3rd book out March ‘27 https://linktr.ee/richardfoster
Simon Blackwell @simonblackwell.bsky.social Screenwriter/showrunner: Breeders, Back, Veep, The Thick Of It, Peep Show, In The Loop, The Personal History of David Copperfield, Four Lions
Sophie Walker @sophiekw.bsky.social 
@grantrintoul.bsky.social @grantrintoul.bsky.social 
Neil Mackenzie @nmackenzie.bsky.social Books, music, technology.
San Francisco, CA
Polly Mortimer @pollymortimer.bsky.social Librarian, crafter, nan, partner. Likes: dolmens, Bach, Shakespeare, pasta, theatre. Dislikes: current mental health system. Former @intervalthinks
Toby Miller @tobytram.bsky.social Video editor. Nebraskan/East Anglian, so possibly inclined towards flat lands. Once talked about cinema on the radio, but now mainly take photos with prisms and pinholes and polaroids. Being kept for my decorative seed head.
A stones throw from Cambridge.
Alex Hern @hern.bsky.social AI correspondent at the Economist. I write about it, that is. I’m still human. One of literally dozens of people online who is not American.
Thomas Probert @thomasprobert.com Documenting serious violations of international humanitarian law. Formerly @UNHumanRights.
Writes slowly on the politics of human rights and development. Posts slower.
London • Geneva • Cambridge • Pretoria
Doug is ONLINE @dasmunch.eurosky.social Bskyer no.450334; now entering my 20th year of churning out the big-hitting #content
https://www.amazon.co.uk/hz/wishlist/ls/YVA1YPMBTPB3?ref_=wl_share
Graeme Swanson @swansonian.bsky.social Scottish drawerer and photographerer
“The funniest man in this lift” - the other man in the lift
Marswasrubbish.com
https://marswasrubbish.etsy.com
Kirkdale Bookshop @kirkdalebooks.bsky.social indie bookshop in Sydenham, SE London | open since 1966
| new books | second hand books | children's books | gifts |
Mon-Sat 9:30-5 Sun 12-4 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
Jonathan Main @booksellercrow.bsky.social Bookseller. Chump. Little Richard once asked God to bless me.
Unless Otherwise [noted] @mcfudlickm.bsky.social ♤ Quality Doomsmanship
♡ The Innumerable Waste (2011)
◇ Sarcasm-enchanted.
♧ Ask me about my vasectomy.
Jo Lloyd but jolly 🌍🐎 @jolloyds.bsky.social Writer
The Earth Thy Great Exchequer Ready Lies (UK)
Something Wonderful (US)
Winner BBC National Short Story Award #bbcnssa
O Henry
Stories in Zoetrope, Southern Review, Ploughshares, BBSS, &&
She/her
Ally
Tim Clare @timclare.bsky.social (he/him) Author, podcaster & tabletop games writer. Books: The Game Changers, Coward, The Honours & The Ice House.
https://uk.bookshop.org/p/books/the-game-changers-how-playing-games-changed-the-world-and-can-change-you-too-tim-clare/7687024
Lily Dunn @lilydunn.bsky.social Sins of My Father ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Guardian Non-Fiction Book of the Year. Academic. Memoir lover. #lifewriting Co-founder @londonlitlab.bsky.social Find me here: https://lilydunn.substack.com/
Septimus Brown @septimusbrown.com Senior editor at DarlingAxe.com. Novelist at SeptimusBrown.com. Award-winning short-fiction writer. Chaotic good. He/they. 🏳️🌈
@barredmarkwatson.bsky.social @barredmarkwatson.bsky.social