Dr Ian McCormick @wokestudies.bsky.social English Language & Literature. Quondam Prof. PhD: Monstrosity. Queer history. Gothic. 𝔄𝔯𝔠𝔥𝔞𝔦𝔠 𝔈𝔫𝔤𝔩𝔦𝔰𝔥. Editor, Shakespeare: New Voices. https://linktr.ee/drianmccormick
Effin' Birds @effinbirds.com Daily comic by Aaron Reynolds that keeps on winning awards despite being nothing more than birds and curse words. Books, calendars and merch at effinbirds.com
London Reads the World book club @ldnreadsworld.bsky.social A friendly group reading world lit in English translation, formerly meeting in London pubs, now online. Open to all. Next: Mon 5th October 19:00 BST. DM to join!
Our backlist: https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/136083.London_Reads_The_World_book_club
Kent Duston @kentduston.bsky.social AuDHD Boomer, tangata Tiriti, LGBTQIA+ ally, spending my professional life working on wellbeing - and Toitū te Tiriti.
The Rights Factory @therightsfactory.bsky.social Literary Agents, Book Lovers, Provocateurs.
https://www.therightsfactory.com
Writers & Artists @writersandartists.bsky.social The best industry advice for writers & artists!
Penguin Random House @penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social 
Patrick McGuinness @padrig.bsky.social Endotic traveller. Recent books: Blood Feather 2023; Ghost Stations 2025. FRSL. Prof French & Comp Lit, Oxford. Rep'd Peter Straus RCW.
David Beckler @davidbeckler.bsky.social Author, humanitarian, socialist.
Drinker of coffee and walker of city streets.
My next book, Trapped, is out 14th Aug 2026.
George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social Husband, Actor, Activist, Uncle George to the Internet 🖖
Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social Berkeley professor, former Secretary of Labor. Co-founder of @inequalitymedia.bsky.social and @imcivicaction.bsky.social.
Substack: http://robertreich.substack.com
Buy my new book: https://sites.prh.com/reich
Visit my website: https://rbreich.com/
Julie K. Brown @jkbjournalist.bsky.social Miami Herald Investigative journalist, author of "Perversion of Justice: The Jeffrey Epstein Story." Philly girl trying to make my way in the South Florida wilderness. Temple Owl. Jkbjournalist on Substack.
Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social Investigative journalist. Ex-Guardian/Observer. Now co-founder brand new all-women journalist collective, www.thenerve.news. Tech justice stuff: www.the-citizens.com. Personal newsletter: www.broligarchy.substack.com
Turnaround Books @turnarounduk.bsky.social Book distributors for US & UK indie publishers including fiction, art, graphic novels, and everything in-between! Impudently independent since 1984 & employee-owned since 2022. 📚
https://linktr.ee/turnaround_books?fbclid=PAZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAab4W9C8mGvdr0Z
Open Borders Press @openborderspress.bsky.social Founded by Christopher MacLehose, OBP specialises in publishing literary fiction, non fiction and crime fiction from around the world exclusively in English translation.
Melissa Brooks @melissa-brooks.bsky.social A memoir writer, writing about my experiences and childhood as a form of personal therapy.
Mia Farlane @miafarlane.bsky.social novelist #LiteraryFiction 🖋️📚
1st novel (Viking/Penguin) set London/Paris ('Seinfeld meets Dorothy Parker' - Bidisha)
2nd novel: AND HOW ARE THINGS WITH YOU forthcoming from Mākaro, Oct 2026 🎗️
Read more + newsletter info
https://miafarlane.com/about
Wayne H.W Wolfson @waynehwwolfson.bsky.social #art #literature #photography #Cinefield® #music #originalcontent Multi-Media artist. Largely inspired by music. Creator of Cinefield®.
https://paperlifepainting.com/
http://www.waynewolfson.com/
The Literate Lizard @theliteratelizard.bsky.social An online-only & very woke bookstore in Arizona. Over 20 years in the book biz. We cater to the liberal point of view. Post as DebtorsPrison on Daily Kos. Books, politics, world travel, history. Support is appreciated: https://theliteratelizard.com 
Mlb Kiwi 🫵✋😛🤚 @mlbkiwi.bsky.social Left leaning Kiwi in Australia watching the world. If being woke means caring about people then I’ll wear that as a badge of honour #BHN #auspol #nzpol #NZpolitics #USPolitics #ukpol #Naarm #Melbourne #MelbourneWeather☀️🌧️⛈️💨🥝🦜🐼🐴🐶😻🇳🇿🇦🇺🦘
tyrell haberkorn @turtelista.bsky.social Plaenert-Bascom Prof of SEAsian Studies at UW-Madison | Coordinates @jsealab.bsky.social | translation, dissent, political prisoners and carcerality in Thailand | recent book: Dictatorship on Trial: Coups and the Future of Justice in Thailand (Stanford UP)
Selfy Stories @selfystories.bsky.social What is the self? Is it a story that we tell ourselves? In this podcast, we turn to philosophy & literature for answers.
🎙️ScarlettBaron + AliceHarberd
https://open.spotify.com/show/2ae2RQYLbLop9oe10huOvp?si=6df3218256a24352
Eoin Ó gCluain Tarbh（アイルランドのイアン） @satorukun0530.bsky.social I post about Japanese literature and the like. And I guess that includes folklore😅
大阪在住の日本文学愛好家、異文化交流（アイルランド文化）イベント企画者。国立ダブリンシティ大学で日本語・翻訳学を専攻して学士。岩手親善大使（元岩手県国際交流員）、松江親善大使（ラフカディオ・ハーンのエッセイコンテスト受賞者）。現在、日愛愛日文芸翻訳家を目指して先祖の言葉アイルランド語を十数年ぶりに学び直そうとしているところの日英翻訳者。
Brandon Diehl @iambrandondiehl.bsky.social Poet with autism and a cat.
Author of ADULTHOOD (Anxiety Press, 2026).
Here to connect with fellow writers and/or fellow neurodivergent people and/or fellow anti-fascists.
he/him • NJ • www.brandondiehl.net
Joanna Piechowska @ashapiechowska.bsky.social Linguist, reader, educator and a beginning writer. Lover of non-fiction and translated fiction. University of Nottingham graduate - BA Hons Modern Languages & PGCE.
Eva Wyles @evawyles.bsky.social Writer from Aotearoa New Zealand, based in London
Deliverywoman (2025, Influx Press)
Agent: Kirsty McLachlan, morgangreencreatives.com
evawyles.com
Catriona Seth @catrionaseth.bsky.social 18th-century cultural history, French literature, art etc. Currently Marshal Foch Professor of French Literature, University of Oxford/All Souls College
Creative Writing at NEIU @neiu-cw.bsky.social Home of Northeastern Illinois University’s Creative Writing Minor, The 82 Reading Series, and more!
https://www.neiu.edu/academics/colleges-departments/arts-and-sciences/departments/english/student-groups-and-honor-society/82-writers-reading
Fher @ferdinand.eurosky.social Economics teacher and global citizen dedicated to linking real-world issues to economic principles, inspiring students to think critically and act for a sustainable future.
Signal: FherKjell.11
Luca Paci @lucapaci.bsky.social Poet, lecturer and translator.
https://www.parthianbooks.com/products/tempo-excursions-in-21st-century-italian-poetry
New Nottingham Journal @nottinghamjournal.bsky.social An annual print literary journal featuring short fiction, poetry and creative non-fiction from around the world.
Jay King @jay-king-art.bsky.social Athens-based writer, performer & translator from the Republic of Croydon.
Crime novels, audiobooks and drama, bouzouki, neurodivergence, migraines, G.O. 💚🍉
Now also Greek.
I wrote Common Charges, the Exarcheia murder mystery
Www.jayking.art
The Lotus Readers @lotusbooks.bsky.social Writer and Book Blogger, love to read crime, historical and literary fiction. Member of Squad POD Collective. Review requests to lotustherapylincs@outlook.com Visit website www.lotuswritingtherapy.com
Orenda Books @orendabooks.bsky.social Indie publisher of bold, unforgettable international fiction, half in translation. Shortlisted IPG Best Newcomer 2015/16. CWA Crime & Mystery Publisher of the Year 2020. Nibbies Finalist Small Press of the Year. Visit us at www.orendabooks.co.uk.
@nicolamira.bsky.social @nicolamira.bsky.social Translator, writer, reader.
"I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library." J.L. Borges
Clare Weze @clareweze.bsky.social Author of UP ABOVE THE CITY and THE LIGHTNING CATCHER, science editor, CILIP Carnegie 2022 nominee, Northern Writers' Award-winner.
Agent: Abi Fellows, DHH Literary Agency
(Weze is pronounced Way-Zay)
clareweze.com
linktr.ee/ClareWeze
Bookshelfie ⭐️ @bookshelfie.bsky.social The Self-Pub Hub (Book Review and Story Site)
Submissions open now:
https://book-shelfie.com/submissions
Book tour inquiries: contact@book-shelfie.com
Oxford Translates @oxfordtranslates.bsky.social Literary Translation Summer School, online, 6 - 10 July 2026
Applications now open!
https://www.seh.ox.ac.uk/oxfordtranslates
Directors: Ros Schwartz & Holly Langstaff
Andrew Tucker Leavis @andrewtuckerleavis.bsky.social EIC + founder - New Nottingham Journal
Words in Radio Times, Under the Radar, Nottingham Post
Char @kiwichar.bsky.social Global politics geek & self described WOKE FUCKWIT ❤️ A tad sweary. AotearoaNZ is my home. Sarcasm is a necessary skill while visiting my feed.
#ProtectDemocracy #PowerToThePeople #TangataTiriti #OneTermGovernment #TaxWealthMore #TaxWorkLess
Gun Control NZ @guncontrolnz.bsky.social Strong gun laws are needed to make New Zealanders safer. Join us to protect New Zealand's gun laws.
Johanna Bishop @johannabishop.bsky.social Je est un∙e autre, but also a translator from Italian
She/her
Musical Chairs @musicalchairs.bsky.social Ugly graphs, insights and outbursts. NZ.
Lucy Lee Jones @lucy-jones-books.bsky.social Translator & writer. Based in Berlin, she/her. Here for books recs in English and German to read and translate
Marta Dziurosz @martadziurosz.bsky.social Polish <> English translator and interpreter in Wales. Negotiates publishing contracts and thinks about scents. Free Word Centre's last Translator in Residence.
Events, books, blathering. All views my own.
martadziurosz.com
Carina Becker @wortwurschtelnd.bsky.social Übersetzerin (EN/FR-DE)
Seit meiner Promotion an der HHU Düsseldorf Merlin-geschädigt🧙
Bluesky ist mein accountability buddy rund um den Berufseinstieg - ich teile hier meine Erfahrungen und was sonst so aufkommt
Andy Turner 🏳️🌈 🇪🇺 @scandiandy.bsky.social Writer, literary translator: Swedish, German. Reformed secondary teacher. Now enjoying his second act. Can now be found in Edinburgh 🏴. #FBPE #BookSky
Alice Banks @alice-banks.bsky.social Midlander/Madrileña
Literary Translator from French and Spanish into English
http://alicebankstranslator.com
Maike Wetzel Autorin @maikewetzel.bsky.social “Let us go forth with fear and courage and rage to save the world“ Grace Paley
Schriftstellerin/ Writer (fiction, film, stage, radio, VR). 🏠Berlin, Porträt: Graz Diez
Chris Alexander @ageordieingirona.bsky.social Translator, copywriter and author. Avid fan of carrots.
Deborah Russell MP @beefaerie.bsky.social Labour List MP based in West Auckland, Aotearoa New Zealand. Spokesperson for Revenue, Climate Change, Associate Finance
Authorised by Rob Salmond, 2 Gilmer Terrace, Wellington
Sisyphus @sisyphusreturns.bsky.social Skeptic! Struggling for eternity against the never ending torrent of misinformation. #Birman #Horror #sci-fi #books #politics 🇳🇿
Duncan Webb MP @duncanwebbmp.bsky.social Authorised by Duncan Webb MP, Parliament Buildings Wellington.
Kirsten @kirstenadf.bsky.social Māmā🩷Lala | Tainui, Pākehā, Ngāti Kahungunu ki Wairoa
✂️🧵maker | 🎓📚student
Te Whare Wānanga o Waitaha
Aotearoa #toitūtetiriti 
Charlie Coombe @cmctranslations.bsky.social ✍️Literary & creative translator (French, Spanish, Catalan > English)
🌏Procrastinator, dreamer, traveller, animal lover, anywhere person.
cmctranslations.com
linktr.ee/anywhereperson
Sparwasser Lab @timsparwasser.bsky.social https://www.unimedizin-mainz.de/medizinische-mikrobiologie-und-hygiene/
#DGfI #DGHM #EFIS #IUIS / 🦖☄️🦠🔬🧫🐁🧍/ #immunometabolism / #host-pathogen interaction / 🇪🇺 / #UM #JGU: excellence in basic research and health care / own views only
Wrong Way @peterpeachfuzz.bsky.social A proud resister. Promote truth and rid our country of domestic terrorism. 🇺🇦 “Slava Ukraini!” “Слава Україні!” "Glory to Ukraine!”
Ruth Donnelly @rudotranslates.bsky.social Literary translator from Spanish, bookworm, cat lover...
https://ruthdonnellytranslates.co.uk/- A Tui McFarland @ayosheicity.bsky.social Wahine Tiriti, mai Aotearoa hoki ki Ūropi, regular iggy snuggler, exclusive sun worshipper
Tania Waikato - Lawyer @taniawaikatolawyer.bsky.social Māmā, Lawyer, Force of nature👩👦⚖️🌊
Green Party Candidate 2026.
Authorised by Miriam Ross, Level 5, 108 The Terrace, Wellington.
Chris Hipkins @chrishipkins.bsky.social MP for Remutaka, Leader of NZ Labour Party. Authorised by Rob Salmond, 2 Gilmer Tce, Wellington
Institut Pasteur | 130 years of biomedical research @pasteur.fr 👩🔬 The Institut Pasteur is a leading global biomedical research institute.
🔬 Explore with us the frontiers of biomedical research
🧪 Follow us to uncover groundbreaking discoveries
🌍 Join a community passionate about progress and open science
@mgdudley.bsky.social @mgdudley.bsky.social 
David DeGusta @davidwrites1.bsky.social Writer / fiction / Iowa Writers’ Workshop / MacDowell / Yaddo | Ethiopia / literary translation from Amharic | Previously a paleoanthropologist.
www.davidwrites.net
Translator of the Ethiopian novel Oromay by Baalu Girma.
www.davidwrites.net/oromay
James Elkins @purelyfiction.bsky.social I teach at the School of the Art Institute, Chicago. Here for writing: experimental, fictional, constrained, with images, with music. My book reviews are on Goodreads. All the art stuff is over on Academia.
Rémi Forte @rmfrt.com Poetic Program, Typographic System
https://www.rmfrt.com/
Hoëlle Saint @jp-trad.bsky.social Littératures et arts visuels, monde anglophone, trad, proffe 📚 bestioles 🦊 marche du monde 🌱
Dana Delibovi @danadelibovi.bsky.social Poet, essayist, translator, lapsed philosopher. Consulting Poetry Editor, Cable Street, https://cablestreet.org. My book: Sweet Hunter: The Complete Poems of St. Teresa of Ávila.
Mandy Wight @mandywight.bsky.social Book blogger, reader, German to English translator, languages teacher. Joys in life include hill and city walking, yoga, tango, travelling, theatre and cinema, speaking languages I know, and having a go at learning new ones.
Robert Walikis @opentank.bsky.social Writer. Seeker. Swimmer. Bard.
I make maps and tell stories.
Words in Post Road, Grist Journal, PRISM International, and elsewhere.
https://robertwalikis.com
ZachSaysStuff @zachchats.bsky.social I'm still trying to fit in and will occasionally just run my mouth.
AutumnBreezeHaiku @autumntreeshaiku.bsky.social I love to read.
ana @anazetta.bsky.social reader.
de/en/it →es translator.
literature, philosophy, music, history, arts
Jamie Lee Searle @jamielsearle.bsky.social Translator, Editor and Mentor
Royal Literary Fund Fellow
Translating: Kim de l'Horizon, Joachim B. Schmidt, Anna Kim, Urs Faes and more
jamieleesearle.com
Kirsten Lodge @kirstenlodge.bsky.social Professor of Humanities and world literature, Slavist, childless bunny lady, literary translator, Ukraine supporter, and Scrabble and Wingspan player.
Sarah Pybus @sarahpybus.bsky.social German to English translator (tourism/leisure, environment, higher education, media/entertainment and literature). Main joys in life: travel, cinema, books, lindy hop, swimming, walking and paddle boarding. She/her
Holly-Anne Whyte @hollyannewhyte.bsky.social Human rights and sustainable development translator, editor and consultant. Working to build stronger partnerships through understanding and respectful language. 🖊️ French and Spanish to English. Vegan 💚
Philippa Hammond @preciseprosep.bsky.social Word wrangler by trade.
Copy-editor in English. Translator from French, Spanish, Portuguese, if you want the specifics.
I blog about language and communication here: https://www.philippahammond.net/blog
https://uk.bookshop.org/shop/philippahammon
The Borowitz Report @borowitzreport.bsky.social Home of Truth
Free newsletter subscription: BorowitzReport.com
Barbara O-S @bofosusomuah.bsky.social PhD student @DukeU. Literary Translator IT->EN. Working on Black Italian women's writing and cultural production, feminist theory, gramsci is a home boy
Paul Appleyard FITI CT 🇪🇺 🇬🇧 🇫🇷 @paulappleyard.bsky.social FITI. CT. MBCS. ITI Chair once upon a time (2019-2022).
ITI Interpreting Assessment Award winner (2019).
Likes 🧀.
Opinions my own because nobody else wanted them.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/paulappleyard/
https://www.appleyard.eu
Jen B @jenbusch.bsky.social Wine lover, cake maker, translator, editor
Denise Kripper @denisekripper.bsky.social Writer & translator
denisekripper.com
📍 Chicago / Buenos Aires
Stew foster author @stewfoster.bsky.social Writer of writerly things
Cycler of cycles
GYGoldenReviewer @gygoldenreviewer.bsky.social Leading reviewer of new and soon to be published literary fiction on Goodreads and Instagram.
I specialise in literary prizes.
And book themed Golden Retriever photos.
Always interested in ARCs.
Charlotte Whittle @charlotte-whittle.bsky.social Literary translator from Spanish (Norah Lange, Irene Vallejo, Elisa Victoria, Jorge Comensal...). Writer. Currently @uealdc MA Prose Fiction. Queen Sofía Translation Prize 2023. Norwich <> NYC. 
Alexander Wells @ajbwells.bsky.social Freelance critic/essayist from Aus with bylines at Guardian, Drift, Baffler, European Review of Books, Meanjin, etc. Ex-Berliner Books editor, now at The Auflauf
https://sites.google.com/view/ajbwells
Quamrul Hassan @quamrulhassan.bsky.social Poet | Writer | Translator | Haikuist
Russell Scott Valentino @russellv.bsky.social Writing *Sea of Intimacy: The Adriatic Real & Imagined.* Translation • place • kinship • words • water • crossings. Find me in complete sentences at russellv.com
Sleepy Cloud • سحابة نعسانة 🏴🌱🍉🌈 @thesleepycloud.bsky.social she/her/ia • bleeding heart eco anarcho-communist • Copt Egyptian tauiwi in Tāmaki Makaurau, AoNZ • likes cats, books, art, and civil disobedience • my chronic illness started before my veganism did • Liberty & solidarity for everyone forever 💖💜💙
Oliver Kar @oliverkar.bsky.social 
Steve Aylett 📚 @steveaylett.bsky.social Writer of LINT, The Book Lovers, Slaughtermatic etc, and Hyperthick comic. Weird/SF/slipstream/satire. Neurospicy, tall, in Scotland. 🪐📚 www.steveaylett.com
Éamann Mac Donnchada @almagroschool.bsky.social Argentine, Spanish, Irish, and UK politics. Aguafiestas todoterreno https://substack.com/@macdonnchada
Crude Marxist and bitter culchie
Melvyn Clarke @zehrovak.bsky.social The Czech-English translator – not the Carshalton ironmonger's. Latest translations include books on Cz Legions in Siberia and Cz astronomers worldwide. Getting down to the nuts and bolts of translation theory. Thingy/doodah.