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Robert Viking @robertviking.bsky.social Pen name of Robert Viking O'Brien, novelist, musician, and emeritus professor of English literature. Exploring fiction writing and music-making on robertviking.substack.com. Exploring Shakespeare's plays and film adaptations on ShakespeareFlix.net.
David Barnett @davidmbarnett.bsky.social Triple threat:
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Books: www.amazon.co.uk/stores/author/B0034PY7ZW
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Emma Kent-Abate 🌱 @emabate.bsky.social a troubadour of sorts. stories in underbelly press, necksnap mag, and folklore review
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Alan Baxter @alanbaxter.bsky.social Author of horror and weird fiction. Martial Artist. Whisky drinker. Dog lover.
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Trans rights are human rights.
Fuck AI.
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ClodaghO @iamagnat.bsky.social Writer, engineer, mother, dabbler in crafts. Words in Trash Cat Lit, The Storms, The Hooghly Review, Silly Goose Press and others.
Mark Coakley @markcoakley.bsky.social #book #writer in #HamOnt #Ontario #Canada
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History of psychedelic therapy - Shroom Boom
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Guy Thomas @guywrites.bsky.social Writer 📚 Photography 📸 Hiker ⛰️ Nature 🌳 Mindfulness 🙏 Veteran 🫡
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Lee Madgwick @leemadgwick.bsky.social UK based fine artist. Painter (mostly). Dog person (obviously). Abandoned/derelict building enthusiast. Wayfarer. Visionary. Procrastinator.
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Eleanor R. Wood @erwrites.bsky.social Writer. Editor. Fishkeeper. Dog Wrangler.
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Jenny Barber @jenqoe.bsky.social Writer, anthology editor, bookaholic (she/her) Never have enough spoons. (If your knees creak, you may know me from Fox Spirit, Alchemy Press, BFS or Fantasycon.)
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Gréachán @greachan.bsky.social Metaphysical poetry
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Gailey 🍉 @sarahgailey.bsky.social They pay brisk money for this crap?
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Chris Woodyard @chriswoodyard.bsky.social Author A is for Arsenic: An ABC of Victorian Death, The Victorian Book of the Dead, 10 books on ghostlore. Death, mourning, dress history, Forteana. No politics. Podcast: Boggart and Banshee
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Ricardo @richardfadams.bsky.social Head of Tech Architecture, emergent tech and complexity & transformation specialist. Artist, author, educator, fmr. Prof, Principal, Descendant of Vikings. Poetry available here https://amzn.eu/d/0bVpxM6N
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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.
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Simone Greenwood @simonegreenwood.bsky.social 📚Children’s fiction writer
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Simon Spanton @simonguy.bsky.social "I strongly feel that this is an insult to life itself."
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Darker Times @darkertimes.bsky.social A worker-owned horror culture magazine.
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Agatha Andrews @agathaandrews.bsky.social Writer. Professional Gothic Swooner
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Anna Rose Reads @annarosereads.bsky.social spooky person
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Clare Mackintosh - Author @claremackwrites.bsky.social Writer. Mother. Ex cop. ✏️ 2 million+ books sold 🎲 #AGameOfLies out now https://claremackintosh.com/me/
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Bepo @eldoleo.bsky.social Author of "Genesi di un hacker". I write where tech, hacker culture and the occult start leaking into each other. Sometimes in Italian.
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David Osland @davidosland.bsky.social Forty-year veteran of British leftwing politics. Not the opinions of any publication for which I write.
Dirk Puehl @wunderkammertales.eurosky.social Storyteller and Mother of #WyrdWednesday
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Nina Antonia @ninaantonia13.bsky.social Author. Represented by Kevin Pocklington @ The North Literary Agency. 'With a host of Furious Fancies, Whereof I am commander.
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Writing Darkness @writingdarkness.ca A page for the works of Zachary Robert Long
Canadian Horror Fiction
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Selene Arkadia @selenearkadia.bsky.social The Last true Romantic. Authoress of all things delicious and Decadent.
Where low & high art meet cute.
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Still seeking representation to get 'em all published.
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Dr David S Anderson @dsaarchaeology.bsky.social Archaeologist specializing in Mesoamerica,
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Melissa Combs @melissacombs.bsky.social Resist 💙 Trad pub author, devel editor, avid reader, adjunct, MA in English & creative writing. I live to travel. Advocate for the blind. COLTS fan. Optimistic at heart. 💙 She/Her #author #reader #horrorlit #PNR #disability #blind #writing #Democracy
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Steve Nash @stevenashwrites.bsky.social Writer, lecturer, suspected vampire. Latest poetry collection Nearly Man out now. Debut novel Remington Platypus out with Northodox Press
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Ray Newman @raynewman.bsky.social He/him. Bristol. Writer, content designer. No alt text = no repost. Not here for politics. Linktree: https://linktr.ee/raynewman Header: Thin Places in Hard Concrete https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0DC5PL7T4 Agent: https://blakefriedmann.co.uk/ray-newman
Sarah Manvel @cairdiul.bsky.social Once I dreamed a cake recipe that could summon a bear, and then a bear appeared in my dream
Writing About Writing About Writing @writingabtwriting.bsky.social A free blog about writing books, and books about writing, and reading books about writing.
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@sarahhealeyeditor.bsky.social @sarahhealeyeditor.bsky.social Novelist and freelance editor. Drinks a lot of tea.
Published by Portland Press.
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WordWitch @wordwitchlife.bsky.social I make magic with words! A woman in pain embracing a changing future.
I'm an author, gamer, collector of rubber duckies!
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Anna Davidson @annadavidson.bsky.social Writing, editing, publishing. Poetry as A. K. Davidson. Debut novel April 27.
Writer Meet Editor on Substack - information & connection for authors, poets & book editors, across traditional, indie & hybrid publishing.
Links: https://linktr.ee/akdavidson
Folk 'n' Hell @folknhell.bsky.social Three chums, one microphone, and a whole world of folk horror. The Folk n Hell podcast unearths delights from around the world and tries to agree if they're worth our (and your) time.
www.folknhell.com or wherever you get your podcasts
Catherine Munro @catherinemmunro.bsky.social Author & anthropologist. Human-animal relationships, landscape & identity.
Book - The Ponies at the Edge of the World
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SelineSigil @selinesigil.bsky.social Arts, spiritual, folklore, occult...the weird, the wonderful, the web of life
Nick Black @fuzzynick.bsky.social #amwriting Library manager. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️-reviewed short stories collection 'POSITIVE AND NEGATIVE' available now from me https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/267521176850 or from your local Amazon: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Positive-Negative-Nick-Black/dp/1915247128/
flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social Annoying smartarse
poorly drawn cats @poorlycatdraw.bsky.social poorly drawing cats since 2016
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Anika Carpenter @stillsquirrel.bsky.social #Flashfiction writer and #collage artist. Stories in Gooseberry Pie, Fictive Dream, Gone Lawn, The Disappointed Housewife, 100 Word Story & others. Based in Brighton, UK
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Elegant Literature @elegantliterature.bsky.social A short fiction magazine, award, and school exclusively for upcoming writers to start their career. Posts by editor Creag Munroe.
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James Woolf @jameswoolf.bsky.social My legal thriller, Indefensible, Jan 2024 was an Amazon best seller. The Company She Keeps, psychological thriller: July 2024. Both Bloodhound Books. Currently editing third novel and planning fourth.
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Horror Tree @horrortree.com Paying speculative fiction #OpenCall s, #writing advice, #AuthorInterviews, #BookReview s, and more since 2011! By: @stuartconover.com
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Ronald Malfi @ronaldmalfi.bsky.social Novelist and musician 
Gree_ @greethewriter.bsky.social The petty and antagonistic Frog of Super Castlevania 4! Sometimes. Lead writer/world designer for Ultima Studios, Horror Creator of the Bloodied Rose: Verses of Midnight setting. Co-host of #HorrorWritersChat.
He/They, Agender, 30's Eastern European.
Rachel Harrison @rachelharrison.bsky.social Friendly Ghost 👻
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The Offing @theoffingmag.bsky.social Online lit mag. Authoring change. From the people who built these cities.
theoffingmag.com
Papa Woof und Krampus und Bleaken @papawoof.bsky.social Eclectic creature of the night, loves cooking, horror & spending time with those I love. Enjoying life and making the best of it. #FFBMovieNight #WerewolfChef
Walks In Camera 🇺🇦🌳 @walksincamera.bsky.social Walks in parks, forests, woodlands and city streets! YouTuber and photo taker 📷🎥. 🌲🌳🚶🌲🚶♀️🌳🌲🏬🎒 All photos and film footage by Walks In Camera ©
Croydon, UK.
Richard Baker @bakerart.bsky.social http://www.cambridgeartstudio.com/ https://www.flickr.com/people/bakerart/
Lifelong artist. Not actively looking for sales at present. Posting mostly older work and some new. Images copyright except for limited personal use. 🚫AI
Judith Monroe @judithmonroe.bsky.social Helping nature lovers bring the joy and wonders of the earth into their home environments through richly textured artworks.
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Sacramento, California
I Am In Print @iaminprint.bsky.social Elane & Sarah: writer uniters; friends to authors, publishers, agents and writers
We pioneered the best agent feedback service in the world - #Agent121 - and run annual writing competitions!
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Maria Carvalho @immcarvalho.bsky.social Multigenre author/reader ☆ Snap-happy nature gal (my 📸) ☆ Space nerd ☆ Author of "Hamster in Space!" kidlit book ☆ Pun lover ☆ Writer in Residence for Literary Revelations Publishing House ☆ Pushcart nom ☆ More info: https://shorturl.at/RYKzk 📚
Runalong Womble @runalongwomble.bsky.social Womble of Liverpool. Enjoys geekery, bad jokes & may tempt a bit. pronouns - he/they/Womble Also Book Blogger/Tempter run fast, laugh hard, be kind - https://www.runalongtheshelves.net
Kendall Reviews @kendallreviews.bsky.social UK based Horror & Dark Genre reviewer
KendallReviews PS5
Clive Barker Obsessive
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Aki Schilz @akischilz.bsky.social Director at @thelitconsultancy, founder #BookJobTransparency & @foundationswift. All things creativity, inclusive culture, literature, leadership and wellbeing.
The Literary Consultancy @thelitconsultancy.bsky.social The UK's longest-standing editorial consultancy. Offering editing, mentoring and events. Home of Being A Writer. #ACEsupported. Official BlueSky account.
ALCS @alcs.co.uk We're the Authors' Licensing & Collecting Society. Nobody else in the world does exactly what we do. We've been championing writers and making sure they get paid for secondary uses of their work since 1977
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Danai Christopoulou | VILE LADY VILLAINS out NOW @danaiwrites.bsky.social VILE LADY VILLAINS (UK: Penguin Michael Joseph / US: Union Square & Co) ✨Rep: Lauren Bieker✨Editor: khōréō ✨Associate Literary Agent: Tobias Literary Agency✨she/they🏳️🌈🇬🇷
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Horror DNA @horrordna.bsky.social It's In Our Blood
https://www.horrordna.com
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Tony Jones @jonezyboy.bsky.social Scotsman, school librarian, prolific horror and YA book reviewer. Author of THE YA HORROR 40O non-fiction almanac. When not reading, snooker fanatic, boxing maniac and lifelong fan of very VERY loud music. Veteran of a million moshpits.
Crow & Cross Keys || SUBS OPEN @crowkeys.bsky.social Seeking the wonderful and the bizarre, the beautiful and the dark.
Home to all things dark and lovely.
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EIC: @keychild.bsky.social (she/her)
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David Atkinson @davidatkinsonpoet.bsky.social (he/him) Prize-winning Irish poet writing in English & Ulster Scots. Pushcart nominated. MA from MMU. Archival poetics: Islandmagee Witch Trial & Irish War of Independence
The Ghost Monk @theghostmonk.bsky.social Enthusiast of British (mainly) ghostlore, folklore and vintage ghost and weird fiction. Collector of old magazines. Also keen on prehistoric monuments, old churches and suchlike. Am decidedly Q. All scans/photos my own (unless stated). Runs #SpookySunday
Laura Shepherd-Robinson @laurasrobinson.bsky.social Sunday Times and USA Today bestselling author. Amazon #1 bestseller.
🇬🇧 Mantle, Pan-Macmillan
🇺🇸 Atria, Simon & Schuster
Agent: Antony Topping @greeneandheaton.bsky.social
https://www.laurashepherdrobinson.com/
Jenn Ashworth @jennashworth.bsky.social Writer, reader, hiker https://linktr.ee/jenn_ashworth
Robert Edgar @robertedgar.bsky.social Writer and Academic. Professor of Writing and Popular Culture, York St John University. Scriptwriting, Music Memoir, Hauntology, Folk Horror, Science-Fiction
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Uncertain Stories @uncertainstories.com www.uncertainstories.com
The Fiction Desk @thefictiondesk.com We’ve been publishing anthologies of new short fiction since 2010. Based in Scotland.
Chill Subs @chillsubs.bsky.social The place for writers
The Folklore Library & Archive @folklorelibrary.bsky.social Registered Charity No: 1203418. Patrons: Michael Rosen, Joanne Harris.
Preserving traditional heritage and folklore materials for the future, and delivering these through open access. Focus on at-risk heritage.
Online at www.folklorelibrary.com
Paul Connolly @thepaulconnolly.bsky.social Writer
Poetry: Debut collection due Spring ‘27
(Broken Sleep Books)
Forward Prize/BOTN nominee
100+ poems in Agenda, Stand, Poetry Salzburg, Chiron Review, IS&T etc & on BBC
Charles Causley & Bridport shortlists
Prose: Orwell Prize/Bridport Novel longlists
Julia Raeside @jnraeside.bsky.social 📚Don’t Make Me Laugh out now.
Shortlisted for CWIP Prize 2025 & Chortle Awards 2026.
juliaraeside.com
🗞️ 📻 iPaper, Times, Guardian, BBC radio.
Presents @boxdelightspod.bsky.social
Agent: @charlotteatyeo.bsky.social
Susanna Crossman @susannacrossman.bsky.social Writing. Teaching. Mentoring. & hospitals...
Books: @penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social @ofmooseandmen.bsky.social @pressassembly.bsky.social @edlacroisee.bsky.social
Words: Guardian, Aeon, Vogue, Paris Review...
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Drew Gummerson @drewgum.bsky.social Writer of The Lodger, Me and Mickie James, Seven Nights at the Flamingo Hotel. Lambda Award Finalist. Leicestershire Short Story Prize winner. Saltburn - Feb 2025.
Indie Press supporter.
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MD ANT
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Rose Ruane @regretteruane.bsky.social Artist, writer, sweetheart, battleaxe, she/her
Novels This Is Yesterday & Birding with Corsair Books
Rep: Becky Thomas at Lewinsohn Literary
Chair of The Adamson Collection Trust: work created in the art therapy studio at Netherne hospital during the C20th
Emma Mitchell @silverpebble2.bsky.social Sunday Times bestselling author: how nature & craft improve #mentalhealth |
BBC Springwatch | Etsy (silverpebble)| Creative & mental health workshops #AuDHD 🏳️🌈| Agent: Juliet Pickering
K.L Bexon @klbexon.bsky.social I'm a writer interested in the gothic, supernatural thrillers, macabre, & fantasy stories. I write short stories, but I am venturing into bigger projects.
https://klbspn.wixsite.com/klbexon/blog