Tactical Onions Vendor @inkana.bsky.social Usually thinking about books, movies, old music, and big asses
Matthew Aldridge @mpaldridge.bsky.social But blue. https://mpaldridge.github.io
Manchester Review @manchesterreview.bsky.social The Manchester Review is an online literary journal that brings together the best of new international writing.
https://www.themanchesterreview.co.uk/
Daily Novel Writing Festivals @novelfestivals.bsky.social All of these contests give you 3 options to submit: Full Novel; 1st Chapter; Performance video readings.
https://festivalreviews.org/daily-novel-festival-contests/
Simon Constable @realconstable.bsky.social Broadcaster | Columnist | Commentator | Award-winning Author
Fellow at the Johns Hopkins Institute of Applied Economics
If you are an author or an aspiring one, feel free to contact me
Arthur Mandal @arthurmandal.bsky.social Brit/US writer of uncanny fiction. Best Small Fictions 2025. Over 40 stories in The Barcelona Review, LITRO, Southeast Review, The Forge, The Los Angeles Review and others. @nightjarpress Based in Eugene, Oregon (but grew up in UK). www.arthurmandal.com
Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social Historian of Britain and colonialism, material culture, the EIC. Also works on equalities, museums, open access & research policy. Download the EIC @ Home open access volume here: https://www.uclpress.co.uk/products/88277 (or individual chapters via JSTOR)
Rob Fraser (he/him) @squireknottyash.bsky.social TV writer since the twilight of the last millennium. Born and raised in Liverpool, Glasgow resident for nearly thirty years. #LFC
Robert Doran @robertedits.bsky.social Book editor
becimay @becimay.bsky.social Senior lecturer, Cymraes. Author of Granular Modernlsm (OUP, 2014) and Modernism’s Whims (Forthcoming from OUP, 2025).
Sarah @ssarmstrong.bsky.social Used to be a writer - still a reader.
Nikki Vega @alphalyrae.bsky.social Translator. Artist. Curator of curiosities
GMT+2
Heather Paterson @heatherpaterson.co.uk Head of Partnerships and Development @consortium.lgbt | Chair @proudchangemakers.bsky.social | LGBTQ+ Columnist Exposed Magazine
Proud queer 🏳️🌈 Trans ally 🏳️⚧️ Intersectional feminist ✊ Anti-fascist #LGBWithTheT
www.heatherpaterson.co.uk
Forever Louise Brooks @foreverlouiseb1.bsky.social Louise and Old Hollywood: Sweet spot 1925-1939
cordelia @cozyunoist.bsky.social book on communism (+ value, mechanism, pol theory, naturalism) soon(ish). would love to hear from you @ cbelton-at-tuta.io. all tweets reports of present pathos
https://writingpractice.substack.com
Robert Bound @robertbound.bsky.social Freelance editor, writer and presenter for editorial, commercial and events. Host of Monocle on Culture podcast; Monocle's senior correspondent; editor at Galerie. Not sponsored by Tanqueray, it just looks that way.
Hello: robertebound@gmail.com
Rob Manuel @robmanuel.b3ta.com B3ta.com, @fesshole.bsky.social, @anonopin.bsky.social
Jimmywim @jimmywim.bsky.social Weather Nerd 🌤️. Social History Nerd 📖 Music Nerd 🎶 Architecture Nerd ⛪ Beginner knitter 🧶 Conservation Volunteer 🌿 Calligraphy ✍️ Cathedral Botherer ⛪
Peter Ross @peteralanross.bsky.social Author of Upon A White Horse: Journeys In Ancient Britain & Ireland. Also, Steeple Chasing: Around Britain By Church, & A Tomb With A View: The Stories & Glories of Graveyards. Substack: https://smallfinds.substack.com
@solomonhughes.bsky.social @solomonhughes.bsky.social 
Robin Baker @robinalexbaker.bsky.social Film. TV. Archaeology. Pottery. Photography. Novels and short stories. Design. India. London. West Dorset 🌻 🍉
Linktree: https://t.co/YEqJmhdXY0
Kieran Wyatt @kieranstories.bsky.social Best British Short Stories, The London Magazine, Free Flash Fiction, Eunoia Review, Blood+Honey. I also post a new story on my blog every month. Fylde Coast. https://kieranstorieswriter.wordpress.com/about/
Stuart Evers @stuartevers.bsky.social Writer, reviewer, Columbo enthusiast
Michael Jay McClure @mjmimages.bsky.social I know you think I’m some silly little debutante.
[contemporary art, poetry, dance, film, & fashion]
instagram: mjmimages
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.
That wasn't very nice was it? @orthobob.bsky.social Austin-based curmudgeonly Englishman reinventing himself as last year's thing. Likes 16th century Flemish art, Marmite, and some other stuff.
Siobhan McAndrew @siobhanmcandrew.bsky.social Policy economist, here for methods/cultural updates
Ex-Sheffield Methods Institute; U. Bristol; U. Manchester; HMT
Former V. Prof, Policy Institute, KCL
Honorary SL, U. Sheffield
Maigh Eo
Ag atosú
dr joshua phillips @woolfianjosh.bsky.social Woolf Doctor | Turns squiggles into angle brackets | modernism, digital humanities, bad puns | he/him | would prefer not to
David Marriott @davidmarriott.bsky.social 🏴🇨🇳🇨🇮🇪🇦 Editor. Shakespeare. Melville. Auden. Wine. Rossini & Verdi. The Fens. Leftie.
David Perlmutter @davidperlmutter.bsky.social Canadian white male autistic writer. Author of America 'Toons In: A History of Television Animation and The Encyclopedia of American Animated Television Shows. Also author of speculative fiction, superhero fiction and anthropomorphic ("furry") fiction.
TimothyMiller Author @timomiller.bsky.social Novelist(The Strange Case of the Pharaoh's Heart) screenwriter, raconteur, kibbitzer, sesquipedilian, homo ludens, sans-culotte, Tralfamadorian, Dylan Thomist. https://timothymillernovels.blogspot.com/
Richey @richeywright.bsky.social No.
Hope Dickson Leach @hopedickle.bsky.social Filmmaker based in Edinburgh often found tending to my children and shouting about how hard it all is.
Dara Moskowitz Grumdahl @deardara.bsky.social I'm a writer, a poet, a radio talker, I know it. I don't buy nonfiction, I grow it. Novelist. Magazines.
6 James Beard Awards, McKnight Fellow, FAWC teacher; NYC 4th gen, leading my best snowy, writing life in Mpls. 
Charlie Warren @charliewarren.bsky.social Music and books in various permutations. Making music with choirs and organs. Buying, selling, and reading books (in numerical order, greatest to least).
A.Valliard @valliard.bsky.social Allegorist, ink scribbler, occasional ham actor. They/them. Perpetrator of THE CITY OF LOST INTENTIONS: A Guide for the Artistically Waylaid.
Out now! (unfortunately)
www.thecityoflostintentions.com
www.valliard.com
Bergotte @twofoldtwilight.bsky.social Big fan of novels, movies, and music. Writing a long-form narrative over on substack.
https://twofoldtwilight.substack.com/
Peter Kravitz @peterkravitz.bsky.social Couples, individual & trauma psychotherapist in Edinburgh. Climate grief, poetry relief.
Editor: The Picador Book of Contemporary Scottish Fiction. Shakespeare for everything & nothing.
(And my Great Aunt Fanny ran The Vegetarian Hotel in the Catskills.)
Greg Buzwell @gregbuzwell.bsky.social Curator of Contemporary Literary Archives at the British Library. Co-curator of Terror and Wonder: The Gothic Imagination exhibition. Loves literature, Doctor Who, the Beatles, Marilyn Monroe and anything spooky.
@timjimwillis.bsky.social @timjimwillis.bsky.social 
Laura Frey @lauratfrey.bsky.social Franzen apologist, book blogger, reads literary fiction, translations, classics, etc. Let's go Oilers! #yeg /Edmonton /Treaty 6. https://reading-in-bed.com/
MꙬse Allain @mooseallain.bsky.social Historically inaccurate
He/him
https://www.mooseallain.co.uk
Emmy @msquinnhistory.bsky.social History lead for Years 5-8. Passionate about primary history, Irish history, teaching empire among other things. I post photos of bread and Yorkshire puddings and I’m not sorry.
Robert Barry @monsterbobby.bsky.social Freelance writer (The Wire, Tribune, Art Review, Mubi Notebook, &c.). Musicker (Far Rainbow, The Pipettes). Reviews Editor at The Quietus. Author of The Music of the Future (Repeater, 2017), Object Lessons: Compact Disc (Bloomsbury, 2020). Idiot. 
Rachael Scotson @rachaelscotson.bsky.social Making it up as I go.
MAWYP @BathSpaUni.
@bathnovelaward.co.uk and The Bedford Competition longlistee. Book reviewer, librocubicularist, wobbly pot thrower and owner of “officially” the prettiest dog.
Daniel Benneworth-Gray @danielgray.com Book design and other rectangles danielgray.com
Meanwhile https://buttondown.com/meanwhile
Jamie Fisher @jamie-fisher.bsky.social culture goblin. research editor at NYT Magazine. author of Nobody Broke Your Heart: An Intimate Biography of Elliott Smith (out Aug. 25th!)
patreon + other links: https://solo.to/nobodybrokeyourheart
world’s best cats, except for your cats.
Meredith Martin @mmvty.bsky.social poetry and data. prosody.princeton.edu & this cdh.princeton.edu
order here: https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691254678/poetrys-data
editor here: https://c19datacollective.com/ & here: https://culturalanalytics.org/ @culturalanalytics.bsky
Eamonn Sweeney @sweeneyagonistes.bsky.social Author. The Last Ditch, paperback coming out in May.
Freelance writer. Lapsed novelist. Cinephile. Substack coming soon.
Interesting writing gigs in the politics or arts line gratefully considered.
Jeremy Cliffe @jeremycliffe.bsky.social Editorial Director and Senior Policy Fellow, European Council on Foreign Relations (@ecfr.eu)
https://ecfr.eu/
Maggie Fritz-Morkin @emeffem.bsky.social Medievalist/ italianist/ tennist, associate prof UNC-Chapel Hill, Boccaccio, prose and other cons. Up with the stars
@NigelPlaner1 @nigelplaner1.bsky.social I've written a memoir - YOUNG ONCE - pre order https://linktr.ee/YoungOnceBook?utm_source=linktree_profile_share<sid=0834039d-2d9b-4846-9d5c-8a761e0e32be
Anna Thorngate @annarebeck.bsky.social Editor, sometimes writer, cinephile. Formerly NYC, now Central PA. Contributing ed at @criterion.bsky.social, copy at T: The @nytimes.com Style Magazine, board member at the historic Campus Theatre, Lewisburg, PA.
Fern @fern-nesme.bsky.social 
Pumpkin Spiced Hannah 🖤🩶🤍💜🇵🇸 @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
Matt Thorne @8minutesidle.bsky.social Author of six novels, three children’s books, one film and critical study of pop star Prince. MA Convenor in Creative Writing at Royal Holloway, University of London. New book FAMOUS: Ego, Envy and Ambition in Rock, Pop and Hip-Hop out now.
Tom Usher @tomusher.bsky.social Tangible Vibe Shift, coming soon
Mat Pringle @matpringle.bsky.social Illustrator, Printmaker and Arts Facilitator.
Portfolio - https://matpringle.co.uk
Shop - https://matpringleillustration.bigcartel.com/
Cameron Loxdale @cloxdale.bsky.social 🏴 Comedy writer and script editor https://linktr.ee/cloxdale
👴 I made a starter pack full of divorced men named Geoff
📺 Rep: Georgia Kanner @ Independent Talent
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
Adam Steiner @adamsteinerauthor.bsky.social WRITER – culture/music/street art
Into The Never — Nine Inch Nails & The Downward Spiral
Silhouettes And Shadows – David Bowie & Scary Monsters
Darker With The Dawn – Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
Clash / Louder Than War / the Quietus
@samquill00.bsky.social @samquill00.bsky.social 
Ben Blench @benblench.bsky.social Magical person. Actual published poet. Freelance copywriter.
Anthony @timesflow.bsky.social Rootless cosmopolitan | Reading wildly | 'Obscure enough to be left in the sweetest of solitudes.' — De Quincey
https://timesflowstemmed.com
Alex M @wigan2000.bsky.social Currently UK based. Interested in all the usual vanilla stuff (books, history, board games, politics, the Beatles, 🇪🇺).
Mainly here to look at cool cathedral photos, but perpetually get sidetracked. Bonjedward.
RedCosmonaut @redcosmonaut.bsky.social Architect, Engineer, Lawyer, University Professor. Brit living in Moscow. Cryptic crossword afficionado.
Owned by cats, and a duck I saved.
Nicola Chester @nicolawriting.bsky.social Nature. Writer. Reader. Radical Rural.
Guardian Country Diary, BBC Countryfile, RSPB.
Award winning author, On Gallows Down & Ghosts of the Farm
Climate Fic Prize Judge 2025
North Wessex.
https://nicolachester.com/
https://linktr.ee/nicolachesterwriting
Robin @robinmcghee.bsky.social Environmentalist and Lewisham Green Party Councillor for Ladywell. Also, check out my podcast: @ministryoffilmpod
Ed Morrish @edmorrish.com Leeds man & audio/comedy producer. Work stuff @leadmojo.co.uk
My posts, since you asked: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:zhglb2ub3qwkn2kpxlwekst3/feed/aaaaqszrsfcwo
Dean @herne-thehunter.bsky.social Psychotherapist with other qualifications. Proud to work for the NHS, but these views are my own (or are made up for comedic/argumentative purposes)
anandi m @anandimish.bsky.social Biweekly blogs about urbanism through popculture, lived experiences, climate change: https://buttondown.com/StreetHaunting/archive/
Words in LA Review of Books, Atlantic, Frieze, Art Review, VQR, The Art Newspaper, Public Books
www.anandimishra.com
Roddy @josherick3.bsky.social 
Peanuts On This Day @peanuts60yrsago.bsky.social Peanuts cartoons from 60 Years ago. 
Out of context Popeye @oocpopeye.bsky.social Panels from Popeye/Thimble Theatre comics
Susie the Sea Nymph stan account
Free/donation-based comics zines at: https://lostdailies.gumroad.com
Out of Context Mickey Mouse Comics @oocmickeycomics.bsky.social A fan of classic, old Mickey Mouse comics and strips. This is an account dedicated to showing the fun, odd, very dated, and more moments of this series.
Zoë E. Heriot-Shaw @zeheriot-shaw.bsky.social Interests: cellular automata, cosmology, foundational physics, ontological continuum, philosophical fantasy, physics of clocks and philosophy of time/philosophy of clocks and physics of time, structural fabulation. Location: realm of Platonic ideals
Globe Emoji Žižek Capital @cesigno.bsky.social one of the london borough of lambeth's middlemost public intellectuals.
Susan Murray @pulpthorn.bsky.social Writer of Fantasy & SF. Northerner. Girly swot. She/her. Ooh, squirrel...
Roger @rogger.bsky.social Product manager. Food blogger. Dreadful champagne socialist woofter.
Food blog: https://www.louchegastronomique.com
Ben Schwartz @benschwartz.bsky.social Writer: 84th Oscars, Letterman, The Nation, Vanity Fair, The New Yorker, The Baffler, Air Mail, Emmy nominee, NEH Public Scholar, and author of way too many posts. rep: WME #WGAW letterboxd: https://boxd.it/1lq09
Claire Holliss @claireholliss.bsky.social Lecturer in History Education at UCL's Institute of Education/History teacher/PhD student researching the representation of LGBTQ+ history in the KS5 curriculum. She/Her
claireholliss.wordpress.com
Holly Bird @holly-bird.bsky.social • PhD student researching prison expansion at Uof Glasgow @uofgsociology.bsky.social
• fellow @stuarthallfdn.bsky.social
• formerly researcher at @cycjscotland.bsky.social / research & policy at @stopwatchuk.bsky.social
https://holly-bird.co.uk/
Patrick Smith @psmithjournalist.bsky.social Digital News editor for @bloomberg.com in London. Former NBC News, BuzzFeed News and was psmith on Twitter. SWFC and St Albans City fan. Mancunian. Likes memes.
Salt Books @saltpublishing.com If you’re reading this, you’re in the right place.
Beautiful books you won't forget. Available in all good bookshops.
Alan Stewart @laikaalan.bsky.social Ex-goth, socialist, man about town.
Into Memorial Device before Mary Hannah joined. Communist family history stuff. Resist moral panics. Writing a biography of Dundee Comintern agent Bob Stewart.
#MDANT #JoinaUnion
lucy kenningham @lucykenningham.bsky.social Freelance journalist
✍️ The Times, Financial Times, The New European, etc etc
Read my investigation into the future of weight loss drugs: https://www.thenewworld.co.uk/lucy-kenningham-ozempic-and-the-weight-of-expectation/
Gazala Anver @gazala.bsky.social Writer (debut WIP Imperial). 
Lee Ward @leewardmister.bsky.social It's books and music all the way down.
Frankie Feels @frankiefeels.bsky.social Scribbling, mostly.
Ben Ansell @benansell.bsky.social Professor of Comparative Democratic Institutions, Nuffield & University of Oxford, FBA. http://benansell.substack.com. BBC Reith Lecturer 2023. Host BBC Radio 4 Rethink. Columnist for Prospect. Director, Centre for Advanced Social Science Methods (CASSM).
Horizontalsrich @richienb.bsky.social That bloke. You know, him.
D Parkin @parkinpresents.bsky.social Multidisciplinary artist. Albums, books, installations. Everything from talking noses to clinical depression concept album shows.
Chris Barrett @mrchrisbarrett.bsky.social Cameraman/Librarian/Music Lover
Cycling/Walking Everywhere
https://heathcoatstreet.blogspot.com/
Nottingham, UK
Matt Hann @matthann.bsky.social Recovering political theorist, higher education fundraising. Cambridge, UK.
Paul Scraton @paulscraton.bsky.social Telling Stories
A Dream of White Horses / Bluemoose
Ambassador / Pahar Trust Nepal
Travel and the outdoors:
https://the-winding-trail.com
Alex Marshall @ralexm.bsky.social Modern Languages academic. Research on Zionism and nationalism and irony, @europeinthepub.bsky.social co-founder. Anti-border, pro-moth. Him/Er. My views own.
Erin Maher @theerinmaher.bsky.social TV writer (SWAMP THING! SHINING VALE!) Friend to books, horses, and old movies. I am pro-Oxford comma.
Sal 🇵🇸🇺🇦 @sal46.bsky.social 
Breakthrough Books @breakthroughbook.bsky.social An award-winning indie publisher putting creatives and readers first, with lovingly made, quality books… and a fair deal! E-shop now open on our website!
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