Hagioptasia: Perception & Meaning @hagioptasiatheory.bsky.social Exploring the hidden force of perceived 'specialness' - a natural illusion shaping human belief, behaviour, & culture.
https://hagioptasia.wordpress.com
Artyou @artyou.bsky.social Even just visiting my store helps a lot. 😊 10x! https://www.zazzle.com/store/allpix
Discover creative products that add color and style to your life. From modern accessories to bold décor, each design stands out — perfect as a gift or personal statement.
Jeremy Bassetti @jeremybassetti.com Professor of Humanities. Interdisciplinarian. Human. Currently thinking about mountains. More info ⤵
jeremybassetti.com/link-in-bio
Bella 📸 Passport & Pixels @passportandpixels.bsky.social 📸 Travel & wildlife photographer
💻 Award-winning writer & blogger (BBC Travel, Nat Geo Travel)
🎥 Documentary director (PBS, BBC, Channel 4)
🇬🇧 London
Nick Hunt @nickhuntscrutiny.bsky.social Author: Red Smoking Mirror, Outlandish, Where the Wild Winds Are, Walking the Woods and the Water, Loss Soup, The Parakeeting of London. Co-director: Dark Mountain Project.
Jessica Lee @jessofarabia.bsky.social Travel writer | Guidebook Author | Obsessed by deserts, mountains & finding the perfect hummus | Ex-Lonely Planet Türkiye & Egypt author | Lives in a cave | Posts mainly about: MENA, travel, books I like, & my stupid cats | Working on a novel.
Tim Youngs @timyoungs.bsky.social Author / editor of books on travel writing. Poet. Interests in visual art, especially that of Gurminder Sikand.
Stuart McDonald @travelfish.bsky.social Asia-based, Australian-made. Founder of Travelfish, author of Couchfish, serial moaner, and late to most parties. Rambles on travel, tourism garbage fires, hot bowls and cold drinks.
Matthew Teller @matthewteller.com Author: FINDING ALADDIN, out Nov 2026 • DAYBREAK IN GAZA • NINE QUARTERS OF JERUSALEM • QUITE ALONE • https://linktr.ee/matthewteller • He/him
Caroline Eden @edentravels.bsky.social Writer about places. Red Sands: Reportage & Recipes Through Central Asia, ‘book of the year’ for the Sunday Times, FT and New Yorker. New memoir 'Cold Kitchen' (Bloomsbury) out now www.carolineeden.com
kerraway.bsky.social @kerraway.bsky.social Reader, writer, runner. No longer flying for work. Son of Portstewart, Co Derry, citizen of the world. Editor of deskboundtraveller.com.
Jamie Lafferty @megaheid.bsky.social Writer, photographer, polar guide, often in faraway places.
Lucy Dodsworth @lucydodsworth.bsky.social 📍Cheltenham-based travel writer
🌍 Car-free and train travel (and lots of cats)
🖋️ Blogs at https://www.ontheluce.com and http://www.explorethecotswolds.com
📙 Author of 'Auld and New in Edinburgh' (BGTW guidebook of the year)
Olivia Greenway @oliviagreenway.bsky.social Travel & lifestyle journalist; travel content for brands. Manchester-based, ex-London. Veggie plus food and art lover. Words in Daily Mail, Telegraph, Times, Time Out and others.
www.oliviagreenway.com
https://oliviatravel.substack.com
Nina Caplan @ninacaplan.bsky.social "Bacchantian maiden, parching for wine". Wine for Times Luxx, travel for The Times, Travel+Leisure, Food&Wine, Conde Nast Traveler, Club Oenologique etc. Award-winning book The Wandering Vine, ✍️book on Michelin. Lives in London & France. www.ninacaplan.com
Huw Oliver @huwoliver.bsky.social Audience editor and columnist on the travel desk at The Times and The Sunday Times
Cynthia D. Bertelsen @cynthiabertelsen.bsky.social Award-winning author/historian/librarian. 3 Best in the World Gourmand World Cookbook Awards. Culinary history, reading, cooking, travel, politics, oceans.
More at cynthiabertelsen.substack.com/, medium.com@gherkinstomato, and gherkinstomatoes.com
Simon Usborne @susborne.bsky.social Journalist, London. Features for The Guardian, Sunday Times, Financial Times, Telegraph Magazine etc. susborne.com
James McConnachie @jamesmcconnachie.bsky.social Writer. Reviews non-fiction for the Sunday Times, edits The Author magazine. Books about the Kamasutra, Conspiracy Theories, Nepal and, next, a Himalayan mountain. Books, singing, wildlife, languages, running... 
Pat Riddell @patriddell.bsky.social Editorial | Content | Consultancy
Editor-at-Large, National Geographic Traveller (UK)
https://patriddell.co.uk/
James Stewart @itsjamesstewart.bsky.social Journalist writing for The Times/Sunday Times, FT and others. Freelance Writer of the Year 2024 & 2020, Travel Writer of the Year 2021. Saltwater for blood
https://www.james-stewart.com
Sian Meades-Williams @sianysianysiany.bsky.social Freelance Writing Jobs newsletter 💌 Food and travel features writer🍝Yeovil Literary Prize winner 🏆 The Pyjama Myth 📖 Cats 🐾 Potatoes 🍟 she/her 💕 https://freelancewritingjobs.substack.com
Peter Frankopan @peterfrankopan.bsky.social Historian. Coffee drinker
Rosie Whitehouse @rosiewhitehouse.bsky.social Journalist and author. Two Sisters: Love, Betrayal and Resistance in Wartime France is out in January 2025 https://www.hurstpublishers.com/book/two-sisters/ I also write travel guides and am the Historical Advisor to the ‘45 Aid Society w 45aid.org
Ana Sekulić @anasekulic.bsky.social Historian & writer. Editor & co-founder of Women* Write the Balkans. Aspiring corgi haver.
Dr Anita Sethi 🍃📚 @anitasethi.bsky.social writer, journalist & broadcaster 📝
Author, I BELONG HERE (“a thing of beauty” - Sunday Times). Winner, Books Are My Bag Award, nominated Wainwright 🏆for Nature Writing, Great Outdoors Award, RSL Ondaatje.
Mancunian 🐝
anitasethi.com
Jonathan Bousfield @jonbousfield.bsky.social Lives in Zagreb, wanders around a bit
Carlton Reid @carltonreid.com Associate Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. Specialist journalist: WIRED.com and more. Press Gazette Transport Journalist of the Year 2018. Finalist: Travel Photographer of the Year 2024 https://authory.com/carltonreid Signal: carltonreid.67
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.
Ian Bancroft @ianbancroft.bsky.social Writer & former diplomat. Peacebuilding @pci_org. #Wine @autochthoinos. Wrote a novel 'Luka' (http://bit.ly/LukaNovel) & a north Kosovo book (https://bit.ly/NKosovo).
Jonathan Westaway @jonwestaway.bsky.social Cultural and environmental historian/geographer. Mountain and polar regions. Cryohistories. Indigenous knowledge. Island Studies.
PL AHRC 'Other Everests' network.
uclan.academia.edu/JonathanWestaway 
Jonathan Chatwin @jmchatwin.bsky.social Non-fiction writer.
Writes about travel, China, sometimes both simultaneously.
‘The Southern Tour: Deng Xiaoping and the Fight for China’s Future’ (2024).
‘Long Peace Street: A walk in modern China’ (2019)
‘Anywhere Out of the World’ (2012)
C.J. Schüler @schulercj.bsky.social Writer, editor, nature reserve volunteer, Herne Hillbilly. Author, The Wood That Built London, Along the Amber Route (shortlisted @StanfordsTravel Award 2021). Published @SandstonePress. Represented @CullandCoAgency
Jonty Este @jonty98.bsky.social International affairs editor at The Conversation UK: @uk.theconversation.com. Interests include books, music, cooking, dogs, Tottenham Hotspur FC and travel, not necessarily in that order. And cricket. Did I mention cricket?
Women* Write the Balkans @womenwritebalkans.bsky.social write(at)womenwritethebalkans.com
IG: @womenwritethebalkans
womenwritethebalkans.com
Support us: ko-fi.com/womenwritethebalkans
Laura Sanders @laurathejourno.bsky.social Award-winning journalist, travel writer & broadcaster 📝
Creator of The True Travel Podcast 🎙️
Former senior journalist at Which? Travel
Words: Conde Nast Traveller, Lonely Planet, Telegraph Travel, Indy Travel, etc
Auburn Scallon @wsauburn.bsky.social Guidebook author, localization editor, and @Unbreaking.org contributor. I’m into pop culture, performing arts, politics, podcasting, critical travel writing, & conscious language. she/they
https://auburn.contently.com/
Shawn Hennessey ☀️🍷 @sevillatapas.bsky.social 👸🏻Queen of Tapas
🥂 Sherry Educator
🐷 Jamón Enthusiast
🍤🍷Food & Wine Experiences
✍🏻 Decanter Magazine Contributor
💃🏻Sevillana since 1993
☀️Sevilla Spain
🔗 linktr.ee/sevillatapas
teddy minford @teddyminford.bsky.social travel writer + editor
Jill SG @wordsbyjill.bsky.social Love: cats, dogs, mountains, lakes, crime fiction, swimming, skiing, life in France 🗻⛷️🏊♀️📚
Loathes: tidying, boredom, cooking, televised sport 👩🍳
🇺🇸 🇬🇧 🇫🇷
Jen Ratcliffe @jenratcliffe.bsky.social ✏️Writer, birder, boater, poet
🌱 #DailyNature 🌊Water Book Club 🚢 Mess In A Boat Substack
🚂#TravelWriter 🛶#UKCanals
🏆 In The Dark LL 25
WC NatureWriting SL 24
Porthleven SL 23
📰 IntrepidTimes, WaterwaysWorld Telegraph
#NatureWriting
#NaturePoetry
Monica Cesarato @monicacesarato.bsky.social Venice-Italy expert / food & travel blogger / podcaster for Venice Talks / author of "Andar Per Bacari" a Cicchetti book ---https://editorialeprogramma.it/shop/guide/andar-per-bacari-english-version/
Laura Motta @lauramotta.bsky.social Travel writer and editor, content strategist, lifelong theater nerd, selective figure skating fan. This meeting could have been a musical.
Jon Holmes @jonholmes.bsky.social Fiddling on this place while the other place burns.
Makes #TheSkewer for the BBC, among other nonsense. weareunusual.net
Audrey Gillan @audreygillan.bsky.social Writer and broadcaster.
www.audreygillan.com
Catharine Morris @catharinemorris.bsky.social Executive Editor at The TLS (@thetls.bsky.social). Commissioning in Biography, Memoir, Travel, Book History, Language. Freelance writer
Geraldine @everywhereist.bsky.social James Beard Award-winning writer, bestselling author, and all-around weirdo behind Everywhereist.com. Author, ALL OVER THE PLACE (Hachette, 2017) and IF YOU CAN'T TAKE THE HEAT (PRH, 2024)
David Farley @davidfarley.bsky.social Author. Eater. Traveler. Bon vivant. NYC-based food and travel writer for New York Times, National Geographic, Food & Wine and others. https://dfarley.com/
Charlie Connelly @charlieconnelly.bsky.social Stage haunter, writer, Addick in Dundee. Attention All Shipping live show coming to a theatre near you as long as you're near a theatre where it's on.
Gail Simmons @gailsimmons.bsky.social Walks & Writes | Out now: BETWEEN THE CHALK AND THE SEA | Rep. @AgentSophieL @CWAgencyUK | Teaches @BSUCreativeW | http://Travelscribe.org
Theodora Sutcliffe @theodora.bsky.social Freelance hackette, content queen and recovering nomad. Working on a novel.
Pam Mandel @nerdseyeview.bsky.social Words, bikes, dogs, cooking, stories, resistance. More at nerdseyeview.com. I host a podcast about getting fired: https://cannedpodcast.com/
Helen Ranger @helenranger.bsky.social Writer living in SW France. Lonely Planet author, mostly Africa, also France. Morocco travel consultant. Loves food and cooking, history, podcasts, books.
www.conciergemorocco.com
Lisa Young @lisayoung.bsky.social Writer/Photographer Co-founder iEscape.Com. In Wanderlust Telegraph Guardian C&TH Times NGT Independent BLLNR Observer ADVENTURE.com Bentley Magazine
Christie Dietz @christiedietz.de Germany-based freelance journalist (Nat Geo Traveller Food, Food & Travel, Gastro Obscura, Pit etc) • IACP award winner • Intl Coordinator, Guild of Food Writers • http://christiedietz.de • Train travel | Regional German food | Wine village life 🇬🇧🇩🇪
TripFiction @tripfiction.bsky.social Love to travel? Love to read?
TripFiction.com matches books with 2,890 locations around the world
See a destination through the eyes of an author
Dorothée Lefering @dorolef.bsky.social Travel. Green. Fair. 🖌 📷 Ethical Social Media. The Touristin https://www.thetouristin.com
Paul Clammer @paulclammer.bsky.social Writer | BLACK CROWN: Biography of Henry Christophe, King of Haiti | Antarctic Editor | Recovering Lonely Planet guidebook author | Bristol
https://paulclammer.com/
Paul Cheney @halfmanhalfbook.bsky.social Reader | Non-Fiction Reviewer | Blogger | Book Collector | Dad | Development Engineer | Geek | Beer Lover | All views mine
http://halfmanhalfbook.co.uk/
Nikki Bayley @nikkibayley.bsky.social Head Cheese @ https://boardsofvancouver.ca
Writer @ Eater, BC Living, Daily Telegraph, Whistler Traveller.
Yin yoga. Roast dinners. Cork dork. Wrangler of world’s cutest dog.
Mike Gerrard @mikegerrard.bsky.social Travel/drinks writer. Rugby fan. Crime writing reader. Latest book: Behind Bars, which is not a prison diary. Half year in Arizona, half in The Fens.
David Whitley @mrdavidwhitley.bsky.social Travel writer. Nerd. General annoyance.
I never met a joke I liked that I didn't want to drill into the ground.
Writes quizzes at https://geograquiz.com/ . Shares unsolicited thoughts at https://planetwhitley.com/ .
Fiona Flores Watson @fionafloreswatson.bsky.social Writer, translator and guide in Seville. History nut. Mother of cats, dog and children. Involuntary teetotal.
Jo Fletcher-Cross @glitterjo.bsky.social Writer, love to travel, dying of pesky brain tumour, wants to make a joke out of… everything 
Annie Bennett @anniebennett.bsky.social Travel writer. Spain and Wales
Mark Horrell @markhorrell.bsky.social Indie author & mountaineering writer | Bit of a mountain history geek | Baldest digital comms professional to climb Everest (probably) | Occasionally frivolous
Emese Maczko @emesemaczko.bsky.social Freelance Travel Writer focusing on #ecotourism and #sustainabletravel | Editor-in-chief for ecolodgesanywhere.com | Forbes Contributor | Bylines in Fortune, Euronews | MSN and Newsbreak Direct Publisher |
-> muckrack.com/emese-maczko/
Henry Wismayer @henrywismayer.bsky.social Hopeless dilettante. Features and essays all over, inc: NYT, WaPo, FT, WSJ, Atlantic, Nat Geo, Guardian, Noema, Aeon, and Time.
https://www.henry-wismayer.com/
Jodi Ettenberg @legalnomads.com Once a lawyer, then a celiac travel writer. Now disabled, writing about curiosity & health.
Travel writing & gluten-free guides: legalnomads.com
The best things I read each month: jodiettenberg.substack.com
MCAS, meditation, & health: jodiettenberg.com
Richard Wiles @richard-wiles.bsky.social Author | LaSource bilingual dictionaries 🇫🇷
Practical French for property owners, renovators & gardeners.
📘 Free Quick Reference Guide ↓
https://www.richardwiles.co.uk/french-property-terms
Douglas Paton @douglaspaton.bsky.social BC-based writer - talks about tech, nature, writing, fly fishing
Words in National Geographic, Men's Journal, and more.
sj armstrong @sjarmstrong.bsky.social travel writer. nat geo, newspapers, más. 🇮🇪🇵🇸
Stuart Kenny @stuart-kenny.com Scottish outdoor travel writer 🌲
✏️: The Guardian, BBC etc.
Sally Coffey @sallycwrites.bsky.social Editor of Scotland magazine and Discover Britain. Scotland obsessive covering British travel for @Telegraph, @thetimes.com and more. Londoner born and bred. Honorary Derry Girl.
Jan Schroder @janschroder.bsky.social Atlanta-based travel writer eating and drinking my way around the world. Editor-in-chief of The Travel 100. #travel #writer #travelwriter www.thetravel100.com #satw
Jini Reddy @jinireddy.bsky.social Writer of books & features. WANDERLAND (Bloomsbury) shortlisted for Stanford Dolman Travel Book of the Year& Wainwright Prize.
Royal Literary Fund Advisory Fellow/ @DHHLiterary
www.jinireddy.co.uk
Works of Genius @worksofgenius.org I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
UNCOOL JAPAN.
worksofgenius.org
Paul Bavister @paulbavister.bsky.social writes poetry
Marilyn Ward @haikupoet.bsky.social A captured Haijin enjoying Japanese short form, haiku, senryu, photography and reading
No messaging please
@mrwamble.bsky.social @mrwamble.bsky.social 
Joelle McTigue 📷 @joellemctigue.bsky.social Artist examining memory as unstable matter shaped by movement, repetition, access, power, and erasure. Madrid. joellemctigue.com
Sébastien Duval @sebastienplus.bsky.social 20+ years in Japan, now in Tokyo. I develop regenerative tourism, and enjoy unique Japan, rejuvenating hot springs, and delicious vegan cuisines! Français 🆗 日本語 🆗
https://linkedin.com/in/sduval/
Scott Pack @meandmybigmouth.bsky.social New book coming next year. Don't say I didn't warn you.
Reading: https://uk.bookshop.org/shop/meandmybigmouth
Writing: https://meandmybigmouth.medium.com/
Selling: https://www.ebay.co.uk/usr/meandmybigmouth
He/him.
Hikevent.travel✈️🥾🚴 @hikevent.com Port for an adventurers & travellers. We run, bike, climb mountains, scale gorges and travel. Inspire by ideas, discover different cultures, history and modern art. Follow us... We will infect you with endorphins, movement and an active lifestyle.
Richard Medhurst📚️🇯🇵 @richardmedh.bsky.social Brit in Yokohama, translator at https://www.nippon.com/en/
Translator of The Essential Akutagawa (Sep 2025)
Interested in Japanese language, literature, and history.
Gavin Wade @gavinwade.bsky.social artist-curator www.eastsideprojects.org
Songs https://newrealityrecords.bandcamp.com/artists
Show: L is for Landscape https://divisionoflabour.co.uk/gavin-wade-l-type
Book: (555 Verses) https://www.setmargins.press/books/is-this-the-way-the-universe-works/
Visit Gallup @visitgallup.bsky.social Gallup offers true, life-changing moments deeply rooted in Native American tradition and its People for outdoor adventures, art lovers and culture seekers.
Emily @eamahon.bsky.social Anthropologist/Photographer/Writer based in the Hokuriku Region of Japan. Enjoys skiing, history, and learning.
https://linktr.ee/EmilyTanaka?utm_source=linktree_admin_share
@achingbob.bsky.social @achingbob.bsky.social Reader
Historian
Pro-Choice
All Hail Dogs
Proud fascism hater
I can see through lies
Pro-universal healthcare.
We WILL overcome and thrive again
Pro-science and empirical evidence
Camellia Tea Ceremony @camelliakyoto.bsky.social Welcoming guests to our two teahouses and kimono studio in Kyōto. Join us as we explore Japanese culture, tea and history!
Website: https://tea-kyoto.com/
You can also find us over on...
insta: http://camellia.kyoto &
@camelliakyoto@mastodon.social
Kamogawa Days @kamogawa.bsky.social Japan. Kyoto. Writers in Kyoto. Lectures on the culture and history of Kyoto. Kyoto Guide
Phelim Kelly, London @phelimkellycom.bsky.social 😍: 🇪🇺 HowToEnjoy.eu
✈️ ✍️ 📷 TRAVEL writer linktr.ee/PhelimKellyCom
📚💻🎬 PUBLICIST-producer-actor imdb.com/name/nm5117722/
💂♀️ LONDON's Bluesky PACK (90+) bsky.app/starter-pack/phelimkellycom.bsky.social/3lr44hozfo225
cumbria, ealing, faroe, gib, hungary, spain
Max Rushden @maxrushden.bsky.social 
The Real David Rogers @davidrogersbooks.bsky.social davidrogersbooks.wordpress.com. Writer. Poet. Reader. Cat person. "I bought some dehydrated water . . . I don't know what to add." --Steven Wright.
IRANZYE ART @iranzye.bsky.social Landscape Artist / writer
More curated artworks on Instagram 👆🏽👇🏽
Instagram.com/Iranzyee
R.K.SINGH INDIA @rksinghindia.bsky.social A Former Professor of English at IIT-ISM, he has been writing poetry for over four decades. His recent poetry collections include POEMS AND MICROPOEMS ( #ZenPoetry #ContemplativeArt 2023) and KNOCKING VISTAS AND OTHER POEMS (2024). #ZenPoetry
Tatami Spaces @tatamispaces.bsky.social Japanese architecture and interior design. Tatami rooms, shoji screens, engawa verandas, tea houses. The details that make Japanese spaces feel different.
J. C. Jones @thejcjones.bsky.social Author of the best selling Louisa Moss detective series.
Ex-nightclub boss and, due to carelessness, owner of only half a lung.
Poems and Limericks daily.
Based in Hereford, UK.
Thomas L. Vaultonburg @wolftwinthomas.bsky.social 🐺 Wolf Twin Author 📖
Author of VANISHED ROADS
104 haiku on grief, renewal, and attention.
Available now:
https://www.wolftwin.com/product-page/vanished-roads
Ili Saarinen @ilisaarinen.bsky.social Dad, suburban Tokyo
Deputy Editor, Time Out Tokyo