Margaret Atwood @margaretatwood.bsky.social Writer of this and that... www.margaretatwood.ca
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Naomi Alderman @naomialderman.bsky.social I write novels (eg The Power, new novel is The Future), I make games (eg Zombies, Run!), unorthodox Jew. not-getting-into-pointless-arguments-on-the-internet is an act of revolution. However complex you think things are, they're more complex than that
Sarah Elizabeth Cox @oispooky.bsky.social 🥊 1880s boxing+wrestling historian
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EMILY WILSON @emilyrcwilson.bsky.social https://emily613.substack.com/
Charco Press @charcopress.com Award-winning publisher of outstanding Latin American literature. Edinburgh.
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Sarah Brand @drsarahbrand.bsky.social *Trombonist
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Dr. Sarah Parcak @indyfromspace.bsky.social Professor, Archaeologist, Egyptologist, Award-winning writer of books, Dad joke lover, mom, rabble-rouser academic. Owned by cats. she/her 
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Michael Schulman @michaelschulman.bsky.social Staff writer at The New Yorker. Author of "Her Again: Becoming Meryl Streep" and "Oscar Wars: A History of Hollywood in Gold, Sweat, and Tears." www.michael-schulman.com
Nancy Friedman @fritinancy.bsky.social Name developer, writer, lapsed journalist, bay swimmer. Born in Los Angeles, semi-rooted in Oakland, California. “Queen of retail rabbit holes.” https://fritinancy.substack.com/
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Claire O’Callaghan @drclaireocall.bsky.social Writer. Literary & cultural historian.
Senior Lecturer @ L’boro Uni.
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Editor-in-Chief, Brontë Studies
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Boze Herrington, Library Owl @sketchesbyboze.bsky.social books, beauty, history, folklore. fan of Dickens & @littleseamstress. gets dressed up like a pillow so she's always in bed. patreon.com/sketchesbyboze, https://linktr.ee/sketchesbyboze
Sam Jordison @samjordison.bsky.social Mad as hell. Not going to take it any more. Journalist. Galley Beggar. 3AM Magazine Anti-Royal Correspondent.
Across The Pond podcast: https://www.buzzsprout.com/1728150/
Galley Beggar: www.galleybeggar.co.uk
Jay Hulme @jayhulmepoet.bsky.social Poet. Speaker. Educator. Performer. Adult, YA, and Children's poetry. Occasionally picture books. Lots of posts about churches. Unapologetically trans (he/him) jayhulme.com
Robert Shearman @robertshearman.bsky.social Writer of stuff, often quite odd. (Both me and the stuff.) Owned by a cat.
Lit Hub @literaryhub.bsky.social A daily literary website highlighting the best in fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and criticism.
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Curious Readers Podcast @curiousreaderspod.bsky.social Apple Top 10 Book Podcast hosted by Amanda and Joseph delivering great book recommendations to fellow curious readers.
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Gail Myerscough @gailmyerscough.co.uk Surface pattern designer and illustrator. Bold, colourful things inspired by brutalist architecture, mid-century graphics and music. Based in Manchester.
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Catherine Clarke @cathamclarke.bsky.social Writer, historian, professor. Director @chppc.bsky.social and @vch-home.bsky.social. #AHistoryOfEnglandIn25Poems (Penguin Allen Lane, 2025): a Book of the Year in The Times, FT & BBC History Extra. Find me in my beach hut.
https://www.catherineclarke.info/
Dorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social Journalist, podcaster (Origin Story) and author (33 Revolutions Per Minute, The Ministry of Truth, Everything Must Go, Origin Story books). Anti-doomer despite everything. www.dorianlynskey.com
Dr Angela Buckley @drangelabuckley.bsky.social Historian, and author specialising in true crime, Victorian and Edwardian detectives, and the history of forensic science. Also, linguist 🇫🇷🇪🇸🇮🇹. Rep: Past Preservers. http://drangelabuckley.com
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Rachel Moss @menysnoweballes.bsky.social Associate Professor in History @uninorthampton.bsky.social, Departmental Tutor @oxlifelonglearning.bsky.social. Current research interests: late medieval family, gender, literary culture; medievalism and the extreme right.
MedievalCanter @medievalcanter.bsky.social Hi I'm Diane Heath, a medievalist at Canterbury Christ Church University and a researcher at Dana Centre Science Museum. Joint editor with Dr V. Blud for University of Wales Medieval Animal series
Granta Books @grantabooks.bsky.social Independent literary publishers. Discover our books here: http://granta.com/books/. 
Neal Zetter @nealzetterpoet.bsky.social Award-winning performance poet, author, educator, entertainer and superhero. I work with all ages visiting schools, libraries etc, in-person and virtually. Latest poetry books: 'Chicken in the Kitchen' and 'Small Poems for Big Imaginations'.
Robert Macfarlane @robgmacfarlane.bsky.social Books: Is A River Alive? (May ‘25), Underland, The Lost Words, The Old Ways etc | Films: River, Mountain, Upstream | Music: The Moon Also Rises, Lost In The Cedar Wood, etc
Nature, climate, people.
Prof at Cambridge.
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Smart Bitches @smartbitches.bsky.social I'm Sarah from Smart Bitches, and I like Trashy Books | Daily SBTB email: http://bit.ly/SBTB-feed | Reviews, Cover Snark, & Recs: http://sb-tb.com |
Irina Dumitrescu @irinadumitrescu.bsky.social Writer, medievalist, co-editor of @creativecritical.bsky.social. Writing a book about medieval imperfection.
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Stephen King @stephenking.bsky.social Writer
A. E. Stallings @aestallings.bsky.social Dipping a toe in here... Oxford Professor of Poetry
Sheila Liming @seeshespeak.bsky.social reader | writer | professor | Edith Wharton impersonator
Champlain College (Burlington, VT)
HANGING OUT — hardcover / audiobook / paperback / ebook https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/717263/hanging-out-by-sheila-liming/
Cat Irving @anatomicalcat.bsky.social Human Remains Conservator at Surgeons’ Hall. Snake charmer. Beagle feeder. All-round general necromancer
Nancy Pearl @nancybooklustpearl.bsky.social Reader, writer, and librarian. Author of George & Lizzie: A Novel; the Book Lust series, and The Writer's Library (with Jeff Schwager)
Hank Green @hankgreen.bsky.social Long Time Internet Guy
British Library @britishlibrary.bsky.social We’re the national library of the UK.
There is no cat in this image @thereisnocat01.bsky.social Images with no cats. 👀 All content = submissions or with credit to OP. Submissions/enquiries: catswithjobstwitter@gmail.com - Buy me a coffee: https://ko-fi.com/translatedcats/
Get Real Leadership Hub @getrealleadership.bsky.social Get Real is a professional development platform for school leaders rooted in collective knowledge generation, sensemaking and scenario-based learning.
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Nigella Lawson @nigella.bsky.social Just to let you know, there are many, many recipes waiting for you on www.nigella.com
Hellebore @helleborezine.bsky.social Small press devoted to #FolkHorror, #folklore, #magic and the #occult in Britain. World Fantasy Awards and British Fantasy Awards finalist. Founder/editor: @mjpcuervo.com
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Sam Gibbs @samgibbs.bsky.social Trust Teacher Development & Curriculum Lead, GMET | Deputy Chair,TrustCPDLeads | Speaker,co-Auth ‘The Trouble With English’, ‘Love the One You’re With-Why Teachers Stay & What We Can Learn From Them’. | LeadingTrusts100 | Running, Reading, Red | Views Own.
Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social Writer of books. Guardian columnist. Newsletter at MeditationsInAnEmergency.com. Board member, Third Act and Oil Change International.
Nimish Lad @nimishlad.bsky.social Director of Partnerships and Development | Assessment | Physics | Author: MARGE model of learning in Action | UCL grad | Primary school governor | Views are my own | All typos owned and apologised for in advance
https://researcherteacher.home.blog/
Lucy Fishwife 🥐 @lucyfishwife.bsky.social London. Book-related (sells, reads, hoards, writes). Macaroni cheese. Trans rights are human rights. Fix your hearts or die. Redhaired stepchild. Proud slop despiser. Punch up.
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https://www.thebksagency.com/lucyfisher
Dr Danny Bate @dannybate.com Linguist, writer, broadcaster, language fanatic. Author of 'Why Q Needs U', bestseller and Economist book of 2025. Host of 'ALILI...' podcast. ČR/UK.
Website: dannybate.com
Inquiries: jaime@jpmarshall.co.uk
Pic: J. Kovalík
Marsh's Library @marshslibrary.bsky.social Beautiful library of the early Enlightenment in central Dublin. Opened in 1707; still welcoming visitors, tourists and scholars.
Registered Charity RCN 20000752
One Bright Book @onebrightbook.bsky.social A podcast where three friends read all the books, one book at a time. Links & notes at https://onebrightbook.com
Find us here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/one-bright-book/id1614302344
The New Yorker @newyorker.com Unparalleled reporting and commentary on politics and culture, plus humor and cartoons, fiction and poetry. Get our Daily newsletter: http://nyer.cm/gtI6pVM
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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk Critical thinking, published every fortnight.
Read at lrb.co.uk
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Shakespeare and Company @shakespeareandcompany.com Indie bookshop in Paris📚Online store ships to the world 🌎 Listen to our podcast here: https://podfollow.com/shakespeare-and-company 🎧
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/
Starkey Comics @starkeycomics.bsky.social I mostly make images about language and interesting maps.
Lingthusiasm @lingthusiasm.com A podcast that's enthusiastic about linguistics! By @gretchenmcculloch.com and @superlinguo.bsky.social
"Fascinating" -NYT
"Joyously nerdy" -Buzzfeed
lingthusiasm.com
Not sure where to start? Try our silly personality quiz: bit.ly/lingthusiasmquiz
Danny Robins @dannyrobins.bsky.social #UncannyAutumn is nearly here…👻🍂🛸 Tickets are on sale NOW at uncannylive.com for the online screening of the Uncanny Live tour on the 25 September!
Gretchen McCulloch @gretchenmcculloch.com Internet linguist. Wrote Because Internet, NYT bestseller about internet language. Co-hosts @lingthusiasm.com, a podcast that's enthusiastic about linguistics.
she/her 🌈
Montreal en/fr 🇨🇦
gretchenmcculloch.com
Kate Macdonald 📚 🧶 @kateem.bsky.social Writer, Vintage SFF Reviews editor strangehorizons.com. Stealth publisher peachfieldpress.uk. New novel: Radical Magic! https://peachfield-press.sumupstore.com/product/radical-magic. Archaeological recorder, knitter, grandmother of frogs.
John Reppion @johnreppion.bsky.social Knackered writer. Mr @leahmoore.bsky.social
Comics for DC, Dark Horse, 2000 AD etc, articles for Hellebore, Daily Grail, Fortean Times, etc, Weird Fiction... loads of stuff.
Haunted Book Club with @gavcross.bsky.social https://linktr.ee/haunted_bookclub
Helen Grant @helengrantsays.bsky.social Lives in Scotland & writes books. Order my new novella STEAL ME from Absinthe Books. Short story collection ATMOSPHERIC DISTURBANCES available from Swan River Press. Perthshire Gothic. M.R.James fiend. Represented by John Jarrold.
Emma Weird Wiltshire @weird-wiltshire.bsky.social 🌲🧚👻 Writer of strange & unusual tales. Ghosts, folklore & history from Wiltshire and beyond. Earth & nature lover. 👻🧚🌲 ☕ www.weird-wiltshire.co.uk
Liam Quane 🏳️🌈 📖 @specificityarchives.com Filmmaker
Author | SPSFC Quarter-finalist
Comic writer
Sloth on the run
www.liamquane.com
NearlyKnowledgeable @g0blinegg.bsky.social Amy
𖦹 Folklorist & Writer 𖦹
Ghostlore ● Witchcraft ● Devil Folklore
Rooted in Shropshire History & Lore 💀
Writer of 'The Best Of Men' -A Shropshire folk horror 🦇
Ben Gazur @bengazur.bsky.social Writer and author. Love Classics, folklore, food, and philosophy.
A Feast of Folklore is out now!
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Feast-Folklore-Bizarre-Stories-British/dp/180018316X
Alex Quigley @alexjquigley.bsky.social Education, education, education. Work at the Education Endowment Foundation. Write books, write for TES, and blog: https://alexquigley.co.uk/
Irish Literary Times @irishlittimes.bsky.social Promoting Irish writers and writing - maintained by Gerard Beirne
@gerardbeirne.bsky.social
Zoe Enser @greeborunner.bsky.social School improvement lead for a small but varied and beautifully formed trust. TES columnist.
Education, improving things for our most vulnerable. Literature, Yorkshire, folklore.
Geoff Barton @realgeoffbarton.bsky.social Recovering English teacher, headteacher, and union baron. Chiefly: food, books, Shakespeare, oracy, articles of interest … and gratuitous pics of border terrier Molly B.
https://linktr.ee/geoffbarton 
David Didau @didau.bsky.social Same old same old
Substack: daviddidau.substack.com/
Bob Eaglestone @bobeaglestone.bsky.social Professor of Contemporary Literature and Thought at Royal Holloway, University of London. Writing a book about Arendt and another about literature and politics in the UK.
oliver caviglioli @olicav.bsky.social Information designer of education schemas and mental models. Author of Dual Coding with Teachers, co-author of Organise Ideas, and The Extended Mind. Co-creator of Teaching WalkThrus book and resources. Websites:
olicav.com | walkthrus.co.uk
Jennifer Webb @funkypedagogy.bsky.social Trust Director of English and Literacy at Carlton Academy Trust | Author | Speaker | CPD | Mum | Wife | ADHD | Founder: The Literacy Community | #EduSky | #UKTeaching | 🇬🇧 🇰🇳
www.funkypedagogy.com
The English Association @englishassociation.bsky.social Founded in 1906 to support, promote, and celebrate the discipline of English Studies (registered charity 1124890). www.englishassociation.ac.uk/join-us/
Martin Doyle @martindoyle.bsky.social Books Editor of The Irish Times; author of Dirty Linen: The Troubles in My Home Place (Merrion Press)
Chris Curtis @xris32.bsky.social English teacher, head of department, geek, avid reader of books, blogger
Blog: https://learningfrommymistakesenglish.blogspot.com/
Matt Lynch @matt-lynch.bsky.social Teacher 28 yrs inc. 10 yr stint as HoF. North Mancs regional advocate for Litdrive. Teaching, tennis, books, Egypt. Views my own. #teamenglish 🏳️🌈
Emma Smith @oldfortunatus.bsky.social Professor of Shakespeare Studies, University of Oxford
Stuart Pryke @spryke2.bsky.social Assistant Principal (Teaching and Learning) | NPQSL | RTT: Macbeth / A Christmas Carol’ and ‘100 for 100: Macbeth’ 🗡👻 @JohnCattEd - https://tinyurl.com/RTTMacCC
EngLangBlog @englangblog.bsky.social English Language & Linguistics for A-Level students and teachers.
One of the Lexis podcast team https://tinyurl.com/yckh3vy5
EngLangBlog: https://englishlangsfx.blogspot.com/
English & Media Centre: https://www.englishandmedia.co.uk/
He/him
Yamina B @msybibi.bsky.social English Teacher | Author of ‘A Little Guide for Teacher: Thriving in Your First Years of Teaching’ | Former DHT | Education Project Specialist | FCCT |@WomenEdLondon Network Leader | @DiverseEd Associate| She/Her
The TLS @thetls.bsky.social The Times Literary Supplement. Subscribe here: https://www.the-tls.co.uk/buy
Dianne Murphy 📚 🇳🇿 🇮🇪 @diannemurphy.bsky.social Co-Founder and Programme Designer at Thinking Reading. Intervention is only successful if students catch up completely. Instructivist. DI fan. Alfie.
Web: www.thinkingreading.com
The Learning Scientists @learningscientists.bsky.social Making scientific research on learning accessible to students and educators. We aim to motivate students to study and increase the use of effective study and teaching strategies that are backed by research.
https://www.learningscientists.org/ 
GCSE Macbeth @gcse-macbeth.bsky.social Englishy things to model and share and also opinions. Former English HoD, examiner, current edu-adjacent person. Mediocre parent.
Conor Murphy @conorsmurf.bsky.social English/Drama, Film and Theatre teacher.
John Tomsett @johntomsett.bsky.social Education author/blogger and consultant. Co-founder of Huh with Mary Myatt. Trainer for WalkThrus. Erstwhile headteacher of Huntington School, York. Contact: jtomsett@hotmail.com
Anthony Cockerill @thecockerill.bsky.social Blogs and writes about writing, the written word and education. Director of the National Association for the Teaching of English.
www.anthonycockerill.com
English and Media Centre @engmediacentre.bsky.social Award-winning charity supporting English and Media teachers with publications, CPD, consultancy + conferences. Putting curiosity + pleasure at the heart of learning.
www.englishandmedia.co.uk
https://www.instagram.com/engmediacentre/
Ayesha Gaye @ayeshagaye.bsky.social PhD candidate at Durham University Department of English Studies, researching Representations of Black Identity in Nineteenth-Century British Travel Literature📚 | Victorianist🎩 | Occasional poet🖋️ | she/her ✨
centrevictorian.bsky.social @centrevictorian.bsky.social The UK's oldest Centre for Victorian Studies based at the University of Leicester. Follow to stay up to date with the community!
Our next event: https://www.tickettailor.com/events/cssahevents/1581232
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Carlile Vernon @markgray.bsky.social Liberal centrist. 18th/19thc art.
DMs=block.
Dr Fern Riddell @drfernriddell.bsky.social Historian. Author. On your TV/Radio.
**Victoria’s Secret: The Private Passion of a Queen OUT NOW**
Expert: Suffragette Terrorism, Music Hall, 19thC Sex + Culture, Queen Victoria & John Brown.
www.fernriddell.com
https://lnk.to/victoriassecretbook
Journal of Victorian Culture @jofvictculture.bsky.social The Journal of Victorian Culture publishes #VictorianStudies articles. We also run JVC Online. We welcome articles & posts on any nineteenth-century topic.
Our linked articles: https://linktr.ee/elly.mccausland
JudithFlanders @judithflanders.co.uk Crabby historian. Less crabby now blue skies beckon.
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