Chris Wade-Evans @cwadeevans.bsky.social #FBPE left leaning semi retired sound engineer, after forty something years travelling the world, now interested in expanding my horizons from the comfort of my room in West London!
JJ DeBenedictis @jjdebenedictis.bsky.social I draw. I write fantasy. I once blew up a snowman using liquid nitrogen. You know, the usual. (She/her)
Tim Coronel @timcoronel.bsky.social Toiling in the word mines for decades. Publishing/comms lecturer at Unimelb. Opinions, I got plenty. Join your union/s!
Tom - the BookCellar @tombartley.bsky.social Flitting between running an indie bookshop & wine bar in Bristol, and helping infrastructure owners keep their ageing assets in service.
the BookCellar is open 7 days a week, morning to late. Come for the books, stay for the wine.
Monisha Rajesh @monisharajesh.bsky.social Author of Moonlight Express: Around the World By Night Train, Around the World in 80 Trains and Around India in 80 Trains
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net I post long threads. Writer (sf novels, etc); blogger (pluralistic.net); activist (eff.org). Latest book: "The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI" Buy my books (DRM-free!) at craphound.com/shop.
Siobhan Logan @siobhanloganwriter.bsky.social Writer, doodler, former editor & publisher at Space Cat Press. She/Her. Currently VP of Leicester Writers Club, a lovely writers community. Dabbles in Art classes for joy.
https://spacecatpress.co.uk/
Derek Owusu @derekowusu.bsky.social Writer
Granta Best of Young British Novelists
James McShane @jamesmcshane.bsky.social Wannabe Writer from Dublin, Ireland. Lover of books, movies, all things pop culture, a bit of politics, equality in all things, Manchester United (for my sins), and, of course, my beautiful wife.
Kidney transplant recipient, July 2023.
@leearizuno.bsky.social @leearizuno.bsky.social 
Aya Vandenbussche (she/her) @hiyaaya.bsky.social Writer, reader, consumer of culture, an occasional voicer of opinions. Sometimes, I like to make up words.
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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social Writer. Lesbian. Texan. Veteran. Hoya. Jesus Fan. She. | cmclymer@gmail.com | I write about politics, religion, and culture in my award-winning blog/newsletter Charlotte's Web Thoughts: charlotteclymer.substack.com
Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social Writer of books. Guardian columnist. Newsletter at MeditationsInAnEmergency.com. Board member, Third Act and Oil Change International.
Alex de Campi @alexdecampi.bsky.social On your bookshelf: THE SCOTTISH BOY, REVERSAL, PARASOCIAL, BAD KARMA. On your TV: BLADE RUNNER: BLACK LOTUS, SCAVENGERS REIGN. Lit: Paula Weiman at Ash Literary. Film/TV: Sean Berard @ Untitled. Newsletter: https://buttondown.com/themagpie . She/her/Mother
Niall Huggan @hugan.bsky.social Photographer: Canon M6ii/Fuji x10; Street; New Topographics. Artist. Wanderer. Leòdhasach. Indie/Electronica. Politics. Memorial Device ANT. AuDHD/Aphantasia/SDAM. niallhugganphoto.scot
DC @tanngrisnir.bsky.social Glasgow, Scotland based SFFH fan and sometimes conrunner. Less so these days since disabilities have worsened. Happy to eat tofu, not ashamed to be “woke”. Trans rights matter, queer rights matter, if you think otherwise, awa’ an bileyerheid. 
Hannah Weatherill @hannahweatherill.bsky.social Literary and Book-to-Screen Agent at @watsonlittle.bsky.social
Ferg @seelertod.bsky.social he/they
Damsel in disgrace
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Penny Golightly @pennygolightly.bsky.social Lover of treats and all things thrifty, head wrangler of pennygolightly.com, started the #TennerWeek Challenge. London, UK.
Jessica Alice @jessicaalice.bsky.social Artistic Director/CEO Byron Writers Festival | Melburnian in Byron Bay
Roland Allen has a protagonist for Chapter XVII @zibaldoni.bsky.social 山人. Publisher by day, author by night. The Notebook: a History of Thinking on Paper is out there, and I'm currently writing a book about books. Here for: writers, books, historians, bicycles, notebooks, human intelligence.
iranesi @neverella.bsky.social Keep on faking, just to make it
What's the point of fixing problems?!
DMs are turned off but happy to chat to mutuals via other platforms etc.
Ioan Marc Jones @ioanmarcjones.bsky.social Writer in The Guardian, BBC, The Times, The FT, The Independent, Spectator, McSweeney's, New England Review, etc. He/Him.
Commissions: ioanmarcjones@proton.me
Catherine Frieman @cjfrieman.bsky.social D.Phil. Archaeologist. Co-Editor Current Anthropology. Previously Editor European Journal of Archaeology. Educator. Tattoo Enthusiast. World Traveller. Accident Prone.
kalen whose twitter pic is 15 yrs old @kalenski.bsky.social Zone 6a. Book Babe Extraordinaire. Old skool Denver. Queen of food allergies. Her indoors. Nuggets. Jazz (the music not the team.) Pottymouth. I talk about books. Vaccinated. "Always insightful...." —Kyle Clark
Davis Eastwood @davis-eastwood.bsky.social History, reading, writing, and role-playing games
He/Him
So Mayer @suchmayer.northsky.social They/them. Overthinker. Reads things, writes things. BAD LANGUAGE out now with Peninsula Press 🐉 THE WORD FOR WORLD (co-ed) out now with @silver-press.bsky.social 🌳 Website & newsletter: somayer.net. Won't age-verify so no DMs.
Lauren Merry Vale (they/she) @pixielauren.bsky.social queer & genderqueer 💖 Associate Professor 🎓 creative writer 📓 backpacker 🍄 knitter, spinner, sewist 🧵 leftist ⭐ I teach LGBTQ Studies! 🌈 fuck AI forever, read a real book 📘 rural Ohio, USA 🍀
Natasha Walter @natashawalter.bsky.social Writer, feminist.
Out now: Feminism for a World on Fire (Virago)
Previous books: Living Dolls, Before the Light Fades, A Quiet Life
Hon Professor Centre for Climate Justice, QMUL
Founder Women for Refugee Women
natashawalter.co.uk
Dom Ervolina @dominicervolina.com Democratic Socialist, Unapologetically Snarky, and I like my Oxford commas | he/him | Professional site: https://ineedufg.com/agent/79DFC8A6
kc green @kcg.bsky.social cartoonist of Greatures, made "This is Fine" • he/him • http://kcgportfolio.site • https://linktr.ee/kcgreenn • email me: kcgreenn@icloud.com
ᚅᚓᚃ ᚆᚐᚔᚏᚇᚑ ᚃᚆᚑ ᚇᚔᚄ @ciara2001.eurosky.social A lapsed moment of reasonableness
She/Her
Lover of utter randomness
Irish
(something pithy. poignant and wird will probably fill this space at some point, yes I am doing a little experiment)
"For I have manifested my darkness and become god"
Isabella M. Weber @isabellamweber.bsky.social EconProf, UMass Amherst
Robinson, Keynes, Meiksins Wood, Rothschild & Matthöfer Prizes | Harvard Associate in Research | 2023 TIME100 Next
Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social Founder and creative director of Bellingcat and director of Bellingcat Productions BV. Author of We Are Bellingcat.- J @jonnybooks.bsky.social @jonnybooks.bsky.social
Dipika Mummery @dipikam.bsky.social Writing a novel. Stories pub. by Comma, Arachne, Tasavvur, Fox & Windmill, Fly on the Wall. She/her. Manchester, UK. https://linktr.ee/dipikam
What’sHerName Podcast @whatshernamepod.bsky.social We're Olivia and Katie. We tell and write stories of fascinating women you’ve never heard of, but should have! whatshernamepodcast.com
Dr Ellie Mackin Roberts @elliemackinroberts.net I play running. Historian of Ancient Greek religion. Amateur sewist. Free Palestine. #ActuallyAutistic. 🏳️🌈 🇦🇺in🇬🇧: Immigrant, not expat.
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Cadi Llwyd @cadi-llwyd.bsky.social Sister Margaret's Home for Wayward Girls
Republic of Wales
Apanthropist
Simon Davies @simonfd.bsky.social Publishing Manager, @themhra.bsky.social
Co-editor of the MHRA Style Guide
Posting about scholarly publishing • History and future of the book • Book design, typography, typesetting 📚
Also work on the history of witchcraft & magic 🌒
• Views here my own
Hugh Jones @hbsj.bsky.social I work with universities to help them work better. #HigherEducationPostcard #FreyaDog Liable to proselytize about #ClimateChange #HigherEducation #Consultant #Swansea #Deltiologist #SWFC
Looselylu @looselylu.bsky.social Scribbling gardener, Edinburgh(ish). Writing plants and place, gardening designed gardens.
TRASHFUTURE @trashfuture.bsky.social Podcast about the bad times
trashfuture.co.uk
Vaughan Stanger @vaughanstanger.bsky.social As if the world wasn't science-fictional enough already.
Loves writing, science, old tech, Space, planet-saving, left-wingers.
https://www.vaughanstanger.com.
Banner picture by Richard Wagner, used with permission (https://behance.net/rdwagner3179)
No AI!
Daniel Tunnard @danieltunnard.bsky.social Writer and translator from Buenos Aires, Stockport and Sheffield, and a bit of Concepción del Uruguay. I am the 41st-best Scrabble player in the world in Spanish, which isn't all that much. I have a wife, a dog, and a daughter, in order of appearance.
Kaveh Bazargan @kaveh1000.bsky.social ● Vision: Accelerating the communication of research
● Research Integrity (https://bit.ly/R2R_video_2024)
● 3rd generation peer review platform
● Open Science, Open Research, Open formats
● RiverValley.io
● https://www.linkedin.com/in/bazargankaveh/
Hildur Knútsdóttir @hildur.bsky.social Icelandic writer.
The Night Guest // Dead Weight // Down Where Monsters Dwell coming in March 2027!
Ben Gruagach @bengruagach.bsky.social I'm an eclectic Wiccan. I'm also gay and married to my same-sex partner. I'm Canadian.
Lisa Oliver | Author, Editor, Entrepreneur, World Traveler @itslisaoliver.bsky.social 📚Author • Book Editor • Hustler • Wanderer
📝 I love words and languages
🙏 Believer #TGBTG
🤍 Spread love and positivity!
John MacLeod @mrjohnmacleod.bsky.social God’s own third wheel. Human wreckage. Abandon hope all ye who enter.
https://linktr.ee/mrjohnmacleod
Line Stockford @linecaro.bsky.social Turkish poetry translator
Poet, writer
Cymraes she/they
Caroline Stockford
https://palewellpress.co.uk/bookstore/human-rights/wtwt/
Poetry translations: https://estoniacordfrock.wordpress.com/
Iain Aire @iainaire.bsky.social Word alchemist, the quest for the unobtainable. EcoFiction, Fantasy, SciFi, Crime & Book Binder. The borderland of worlds. www.iainaire.com The Grey Pilgrim’s Gambit https://thegreypilgrimsgambit.laterpress.com Seeds anthology https://seeds.laterpress.com
Anne-Marie Silbiger (happimess73) @happimess73.bsky.social
Professional cat sitter.
Studying feline behaviour.
Poet, sometimes.
Founder of W.A.N.G.
Walthamstow Adults Neurodivergent Group.
https://www.threads.net/@happimess73
https://linktr.ee/happimess73
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Vicky Grut @vickygrut.bsky.social Writer. Short story collection 'Live Show, Drink Included' shortlisted for 2019 Edge Hill Awards. Pushcart nominated, 2023. Work in Masters Review XIII in 2025 and Best British Short Stories 2026. www.vickygrut.com
Dr Fiona Tolan @fionatolan.bsky.social Reader in Contemporary Women’s Writing, LJMU, UK. Contemporary British fiction, feminist theory, politics of cleaning. Posting in a personal capacity.
@richiebryan.bsky.social @richiebryan.bsky.social Green party member. Palliative care physiotherapist. Rejoin the EU and plant more trees 🌲🌲🌲
Bold Politics @boldpolitics.bsky.social Bold Politics is the podcast making hope normal again with Zack Polanski.
https://linktr.ee/boldpolitics
Matilda @junklight.bsky.social she/her - Queer - Trans
music & pictures & other nonsense.
ultimately disappointing
born at 322.18ppm
https://linktr.ee/junklight
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🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social Here to hold my name . She/her / yourgorgoness
- Far Rock’s finest
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- Senior Fellow
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@unbreaking.org
Phoenix Rising @phxrising18.bsky.social Screenwriter/novelist/artist• NB/queer🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈 •Gen X• misfit •bereaved parent• Muppets • LEGO• Star Wars •🖖 •hoodies & cargo shorts😎• Midwest •😸😸😸
Tony @tony.eurosky.social I draw. I write. I sculpt. I clean.
Link in bio - https://links.fans/r/htrmav4
Tauriq Moosa @tauriq.bsky.social Lawyer, video game critic, horror obsessive, Kader Asmal Fellow, Master's in International Law (Trinity College Dublin). He/him. Repped by Marilia Savvides / The Plot Agency. Cape Town, ZA Hire me for freelance work: tauriqmoosalaw@gmail[dot]com
Eileen Armstrong @earmstronglib.bsky.social Chartered School Librarian, SLE Literacy, former School Library Association Chair, previous Carnegie Greenaway judge, North East Book Awards organiser
Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social Green Party Leader (England & Wales)
London Assembly Member.
🏳️🌈
Promoted by Elfrede Brambley-Cranshaw on behalf of the Green Party of England and Wales. c/I po box 78066, London. SE16 9GQ
Florence McGrath @flothulhu.bsky.social AKA The Polka Dot Assassin. Artist, secret Sci-fi/Fantasy writer, fictional weasel wrangler. Award winner: St John’s Episcopal Church Best Halloween costume 1984. Scot in South Wales 🏴🏴
Beate H 💙📚🦔 @beate251.bsky.social Made in Germany, imported to London. Reader, NetGalley book reviewer and StoryGraph user. Love books, films, hedgehogs and roast dinners. Springsteen's the Boss.
Nat Guest @unfortunatalie.bsky.social "Natalie, HR is just concerned. We can't have a renegade jumping into bins and trying to solve crimes."
Currently working in research & scholarly technology.
I write things sometimes. https://substack.com/@unfortunatalie
Christine Symington @chrissym1352.bsky.social Scot living in Saddleworth. Mostly a book and arts person with the occasional foodie meander.
Jo VanEvery @jovanevery.bsky.social I help academics protect time for writing and resist overwork. Meaningfulness matters. You are more than your job. I also make things with textiles, read romances, sing alto in a choir. Subscribe to my newsletter: JoVanEvery.co.uk/newsletter
Ian McMillan @imcmillan.bsky.social I was a New Face of 1984 in Harper’s and Queen magazine
Benny Wilkinson @bmbwilkinson.bsky.social Would-be writer of fantasy and science fiction. Has cats.
Timo Boezeman @boezeman.bsky.social Doet dingen met AI, gek op auto's en verslaafd aan F1. 📙 Mijn boek 'AI aan het werk' is nu uit https://managementboek.nl/boek/9789463564120/ai-aan-het-werk-timo-boezeman
Sojung Kim-McCarthy @creativesojung.bsky.social Author-illustrator 🇰🇷🇬🇧 She/her
Agent: @agenthawk.bsky.social
My PB debut: BINNA’S DALGONA (2025)
tinyurl.com/3m7bpcd3
instagram.com/creativesojung
sojungkimmccarthy.art
sojungkimmccarthy@gmail.com
Claire @clairenorky.bsky.social Barnsley fan, book lover, butler to a demonic cat & daft dog.
The Film Stage @thefilmstage.com Your spotlight on cinema since 2008.
Robert Ramsay @robertramsay.org Wizard, Author, Lyricist and Voiceover. Will word for food.
Book: 'The Engineering of Coincidence' https://read.amazon.co.uk/kp/embed?asin=B0834BLHNS
Album: 'Confound and Disturb' robertramsay.bandcamp.com
Athena Kugblenu @athenakugblenu.bsky.social Comedian'n'writer'n'podcaster. TED Speaker. Take my coffee like I take my power.
SophieChapmanTalent / SueTerryVoices
👉🏾 https://linktr.ee/athenakugblenu
📕 Buy History's Most Epic FIBS & FAILS!
🎧 Bust or Trust or PROcrastinate
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Ally Lester @cogenthippo.bsky.social Writer and reader of fiction -- history, sff, romance, thrillers. Interested in sustainability, rewilding, growing things. Knitter, early tech adopter, parent, spouse, disabled.
They/them. Also writes as Frances Fox. https://lnk.bio/gjD5 🏳️🌈 ✒️ 🏳️⚧️
Clare Coffey 🦋 @coffeeeeee.bsky.social Can we make it make sense with rhymes? #gazaisnotforsale #resist #lakeontario
J.J. Unthank @jjunthank.bsky.social Fantasy Author. Games Programmer.
Debut novel, ANY MORE QUESTIONS FOR THE CORPSE? out now!
www.jjunthank.com
Kevin F. Quinn @kevfquinn.bsky.social Mostly harmless. He/him.
vi, spaces, and the Oxford comma.
GenX, born at 325ppm.
Hastings, UK.
ALT avatar: Egyptian goose
ALT banner: four Canadian Geese
Denis Angelov @denisillustrates.bsky.social Children's book illustrator and artist, based in Sofia, Bulgaria
Art / Film Photography / Stuff I like
🌐 www.denisillustrates.com
Stuart Laidler @stuartlaidler.bsky.social Holding out hope for a Muppet Movie starring Nicolas Cage.
Andrew Blair @andrewblair.co.uk Software developer, poet, and only ever person to not be wrong about Doctor Who. Writer of 'The R-Pattz Facttz 2020' and 'polblar Tmolkop'. I was the first person to see comedy potential in the Vengabus.
He/him
https://andrewblair.co.uk
Ricardo Bessa ✏ @rbessaaa.bsky.social Illustrator. Tags: #art #mtg #lifedrawing
https://instagram.com/rbessaaa/
https://beacons.ai/rbessaaa
Andy Helliwell @andyhelliwell.bsky.social Music, books, nature, gardening, running, that sort of thing. Personal views.
Heritage Crafts @heritage-crafts.bsky.social Heritage Crafts is the UK charity for traditional craft skills. Registered as the Heritage Crafts Association CIO 1159208.
Alasdair Beckett-King @misterabk.bsky.social Award-winning poltergeist and comedian | Writer of the Montgomery Bonbon mysteries | Pronouns like a butler coughing: he/him | linktr.ee/misterabk
UK TOUR 2026 (Extended!): www.mickperrin.com/tours/king-of-crumbs
James Aithie 🏴 @jamesaithie.bsky.social "Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards"- Soren Kierkagaard
Dumfries and Galloway / Isle of Lewis 🏴
I'd mute #ScottishIndependence if that's not your bag, as I bang on about it a lot.
Neil Williamson @neilwilliamson.bsky.social Words and music. Glasgow, Scotland
he/him https://linktr.ee/neilwilliamson
LATEST 📚 Hand-Me-Downs (short story collection) https://bit.ly/4fhuSt9
🎶Extinction Event (album) http://bit.ly/4w4EKMC
NEXT 📚 ???
Eoin Purcell @eoinpurcell.bsky.social Co-Founder of Full Set, independent non-fiction publisher.
Birmingham Green Party @brumgreens.bsky.social 💚 Making hope normal again in Birmingham.
Promoted by C. Busuttil at Unit 3 Block 2, Wednesbury Trading Estate, WS10 7JN.
https://birmingham.greenparty.org.uk/
Sarah Jane Butler @sarahjanebutler.bsky.social Reclaiming rivers for all of us. Next book, River Time, due soon. River campaigner, story gatherer, wanderer and swimmer My novel, Starling, published by @Fairlightbooks she/her; pwME https://linktr.ee/sarahjanebutler
George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social Recovering lawyer | Owned by a Pembroke Corgi | Host of Psycho Politics pod and contributor, @TheBulwark.com | Crappy pol | Trying to figure out Substack
substack.com/@gtconway
InkandescentUK @inkandescentuk.bsky.social Inkandescent is a publishing venture from Justin David and Nathan Evans focussing on queer and outsider voices. 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ 🍉✊🏿✊🏾
Justin Lee Anderson @justinleeanderson.com Scottish fantasy author of Carpet Diem as well as The Eidyn Saga from @orbitbooks.bsky.social. The Damned King OUT NOW. He/Him. Rep by @canonizer.bsky.social
Founder of bookmatch.co.uk