Joanna Pocock @joannapocock.bsky.social • Author of SURRENDER (Fitzcarraldo Editions, 2018) & GREYHOUND (Fitzcarraldo Editions & Soft Skull Press, 2025).
• Words in Guardian, Spectator, New Statesman, TLS, The Nation, etc...
• Creative Writing tutor at the University of the Arts, London.
Neil Blackman @n3il4real.bsky.social Writer of fiction. Heart that you call home. Movie stuff. Music junk. Mental Health. Still chasing the highs of discovering AOL and finding the lows of everything since.
Alex Heron @heronalex.bsky.social Short-story writer. Very fond of marzipan, chocolate, sherry trifle. Chekhov. The idea of a parrot.
Steve Perfect @notbadconsidering.bsky.social Artist
The Watchful Cook @thewatchfulcook.bsky.social An immigrant in Turin, scribbling about food, Slow Food, art, homes, music, books. And cheese. Lots of cheese.
No DMs unless agreed. 
Claire Reynolds @clairereynolds.bsky.social DFA Researcher in Creative Writing UofG
Co-host of the podcast Let Them Eat Books!
Highly commended Scottish Podcast Awards 2026
in Food,Drink & Hospitality 🍽️📚
https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/let-them-eat-books/id1816662384
Jonathan Gibbs @jonathangibbs.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing at City St George's, Uni of London. I curate the short story project apersonalanthology.com. Novels are Randall or The Painted Grape, and The Large Door. Poetry is Spring Journal. https://linktr.ee/jonathangibbs
Lynsey Black @lynseyblack.bsky.social Doing history, gender, punishment, postcolonialism, borders at Maynooth University. PI on Research Ireland Laureate Award, CONSPACE - Contested Space: Penal Nationalism & the Northern Ireland Border.
Wilson @wilsonjettone.bsky.social Mostly watching films.
𝕳𝖔𝖗𝖗𝖔𝖗𝖈𝖚𝖑𝖙𝖚𝖗𝖎𝖘𝖙 | The Tower, The Moon, The Gun 🇨🇦🦇🥀🕸 @horrorculturist.bsky.social Gothic gardening, goblincore, dark art, horror, weird music. 🌿🍁🍂🎃
Agnostic atheist. Nyctophile. AuDHD. Demi-Pan. They/them. | Contrary to internet lore, I am not lost, sorrowful, despairing, trapped, drowning, falling, or stuck in a maze. (You OK?)
Tom Nissley @tomnissley.bsky.social Owner of Phinney Books in Seattle, author of A Reader’s Book of Days and The Phinney by Post Book
Richard Cooper @richardhcooper.bsky.social Reads, writes, watches, gets increasingly leftwing as he gets older. I live in Battle, East Sussex. I’m 42. I try & write essays (on literature, film, TV drama, TV comedy) for my blog. I’m on the Spectrum. I have an MA. Socialism or barbarism.
Aoife Martin @lockdownbookclub.bsky.social You know, from the other place.
Andrew Male @andrewmale.bsky.social Writer and arts journalist. MOJO, Guardian, and The Sunday Times. Sight & Sound's TV columnist.
Hwael Mag @hwaelmag.com Between folk, hauntology and pastoral — an independent magazine of music and culture.
www.hwaelmag.com
Schaffner Press @schaffnerpress.bsky.social We publish books. We like fiction, nonfiction, translation, poetry, and topics of social relevance. And you?
Distributor: @ipgbook.bsky.social
https://schaffnerpress.com/
Emory 🩶 @emory-f8.bsky.social I write dark Victorian fiction and specialize in the long 19th century.
She/Her 🏳️🌈🇪🇸✡️ (I'm always kind)
#writer #historian #Lesbian #sapphic #wlw #Hispanic #feminist #goth #vampires #jpop #bibliophile
NO DMs | Terfs & Narcissists DNI
Finn @sconesaregood.bsky.social TV's Jazz Detective ʕ •ᴥ•ʔ I only want to live in peace and plant potatoes and dream
https://letterboxd.com/sconesaregood/
Luanne Gauvreau @luannegauvreau.bsky.social Sometimes writing; usually reading. 
Fitzcarraldo Editions @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social Independent publisher.
fitzcarraldoeditions.com
Reticule of Velma @sediziosevoci.bsky.social "No, no—there are depths, depths! The more I go over it, the more I see in it, and the more I see in it, the more I fear. I don't know what I don't see—what I don't fear!"
Friends of Friendless Churches @friendlesschurches.bsky.social Our 'A Victorian Revival match-funding campaign' aims to save two historic churches in Lincolnshire and Carmarthenshire. These churches are at risk of being lost forever
Support our match-funding now, and every £ given will be matched by our generous donor
Owen Gower @owentg.bsky.social He/him | sometime historian of medicine (vaccination + smallpox) | museums + heritage | folk tales + music | resilient + empowered communities | climate action | anti-capitalist solutions | ever hopeful | rooted in rural Gloucestershire | owengower.co.uk
Rachel Loden @rloden.bsky.social Poet. Private scholar. (HOTEL IMPERIUM, DICK OF THE DEAD.) Forthcoming in UNSUNG MASTERS (Wesleyan). Journal of the Plague Years, New American Writing, Paris Review &c. Profile image from Ana Teresa Fernández
Elliott Blackwell @elliottblackwell.bsky.social Curator of Wonder
The Unhurried Reader 📚🦊🇺🇦🇬🇱 @theunhurriedreader.bsky.social Reader, writer, nature-lover, garden-potterer, history-dabbler, selenophile. Distracted by birds. 🐦⬛
theunhurriedreader.substack.com
@the_unhurried_reader on Instagram (yes, I know that's confusing).
#InvisibleIllnessVisibleLives
#Nordlichtberaubt
Marc Chamberlain @marcchamberlain.bsky.social Poets | Anniversaries | Poems
www.marcchamberlain.net
amye @amye.org the foundation of my radical cause in my increasingly old age is that I want everyone to be ok.
Consulting open source program manager focusing on governance and crisis comms.
JD with an LL.M in cybercrime, cybersecurity and international law
#PDX
Dan Hon @danhon.com Hi, it's me, I'm the problem etc etc
me: about.danhon.com
work: verylittlegravitas.com/
show: verylittlegravitas.com/how-people-work/live
newsletter: thingsthatcaughtmyattention.com
i made: donotreply.cards
DM or Signal danhon.1701
j alfred postrock @seriouslyreadmore.bsky.social books and sad songs. illustration? look I don’t know
trying to keep sports nonsense relegated to @kingdometurf.bsky.social
Alex @alexplatt.bsky.social Reader, cat lover, she/her. Canadian.
@npwsouthcarolina.bsky.social @npwsouthcarolina.bsky.social 
Christopher Burlinson @cmburlinson.bsky.social A green thought in a green shade. Early modern English literature. I teach at Jesus College, Cambridge, but these words are mine, not theirs.
Amorak Huey @amorak.bsky.social Loyola grad’s dad. BGSU dad. Poet. BGSU prof/director of creative writing. Union member. Co-founding editor @riverriverbooks.bsky.social. He/him. It's pronounced uh-MOR-ack. https://amorakhuey.com
graywyvern @graywyvern.bsky.social poet https://linktr.ee/graywyvern saktra
(pic via zeeshan jaanam)
Andromeda @ulveheksa.bsky.social Dirt & Bone Witch. Feral. Woods. Ocean. Words. Books. The Weird. Poet. Magpie at heart. Mother of Squirrels and Magpies and Crows. Odd, strange little thing. 🇳🇴
🐺 Mor til Ailo 🐺. ❤️ Kona til 🐻 ♾️.
Rickard Sisters @rickardsisters.com Scarlett & Sophie: sisters who make graphic novels together, including Eisner nominated The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists, No Surrender and This Slavery with SelfMadeHero
🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ ally
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
MotoYae @motoyae.bsky.social Gramophonerepairman, cat-lover.
THE FAR SIDE DAILY @bot.cowtools.org The Far Side, near at hand
Account by @cowtools.org
Garth Greenwell @garthgreenwell.bsky.social What Belongs to You, Cleanness, & Small Rain | 2025 PEN/Faulkner Award | Eeyore at the gay club | https://garthgreenwell.substack.com
Anne Trubek @atrubek.bsky.social founder & publisher, Belt Publishing. author, former academic, recent Pittsburgh transplant. https://notesfromasmallpress.substack.com
Belt Publishing: beltpublishing.com
Max Cairnduff @maxcairnduff.bsky.social Repairer of Reputations.
Jackie Kirkham @jackiekirkham.bsky.social Author (The Calm Place, The Wizard of Flanders Moss), research nurse, nerd, Scotland. Into books and nature. Lefty. Appreciates a good rant. https://books2read.com/thecalmplace
Nick @gardenwizard.bsky.social Gardening, nature, floral arrangements, music, concerts, tea, Sci-Fi/Fantasy, history, vegetarian cooking, art, animals, nostalgia, photography with my IPhone & a whole bunch of typos. ⚠️Corny🌻Married🍄New York💙Zone 6a🌅Sober🪷On the path of growth✌️
Michael Lobel @mlobelart.bsky.social Professor of Art History, Hunter College & CUNY Graduate Center. I look at things and then write about them.
Author of Van Gogh and the End of Nature, from Yale University Press: https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300274363/van-g
Iron Chef Bot @ironchefbot.bsky.social 🦐Unofficially posting frames from the Food Network dub of Iron Chef 🔥 How will the challenger fight back? 🧄 The heat will be on! 🥑
Episode title and frame # are in alt txt
(ran by @dudethatbe.bsky.social)
Lady Topham Catt @ladytophamcatt.bsky.social Short. Black. Mom. Wife. Writer. Photographer. Profanity enthusiast. Chicago architecture & history + classic film. Photos mine unless noted. Opinions always mine. Fighter against the tyranny of hard pants & unyielding waistbands. she/her
The Hermit of Everything @hermiteveryday.bsky.social Artist, writer, crow friend, hugger of trees, saver of spiders. Encouraging dreamers and believing in fairies. https://bio.site/thehermitofeverything Also hosts @thingstowriteabout.bsky.social
William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol All the world’s a stage
Film Broads Podcast @filmbroadspod.bsky.social We're two queer girls who never stop talking about movies. Our current series is THE SHAKE UP! Episodes every last Wednesday.
oxo @martinwellbourne71.bsky.social 
Erin L. Thompson @artcrimeprof.bsky.social America’s only art crime professor, studying theft, repatriation, and general museum shenanigans. Forthcoming book: The Styrofoam Mummy (Norton), on fraud and forgery on the market for ancient treasures. She/her; queer.
www.artcrimeprof.com
Sarah Fawn Montgomery @sfmontgomery.bsky.social Author of ABBREVIATE, NERVE, HALFWAY FROM HOME, QUITE MAD, and three poetry chaps. FATHOM forthcoming. Editor Nerve to Write. Associate Prof. ♿🏳️🌈
Flaming Hydra @flaminghydra.com A collaborative of 60 writers and artists publishing a newsletter for you each weekday. Culture, opinions, criticism, news, comics, mayhem.
$3/month
https://flaminghydra.com
Stephanie Insley Hershinow @sinsleyh.bsky.social Quite good: cook, reader, procrastinator. Decent: mom, writer, teacher. Terribly bad: athlete, winker, cat trainer. Reposts are jokes I wish I'd made first.
Stephanieinsleyhershinow.com
JWKropf @jwkropf.bsky.social Lawyer, author, lover of the fall and the Great Lakes. Most recent books: A Midwestern Heart: Poems, and Color Capital of the World. No coherent logic to posting — usually nonsense and wordplay. Always curious. Johnkropf.com.
Emergence Magazine @emergencemagazine.bsky.social Webby-winning, Ellie-, Peabody- and Emmy-nominated publication and creative studio exploring the threads connecting ecology, culture and spirituality. Currently not active on Bluesky. Find us here:
https://linktr.ee/emergencemagazine
magistrabeck.bsky.social @magistrabeck.bsky.social Avid reader, book blogger, former Latin teacher/classicist, fountain pen addict. Blogging about literature and life at www.thebookbindersdaughter.com
Lincoln Michel @thelincoln.bsky.social Author and professor type person.
SF noir novel! 🤖🕵️♂️🧬 http://tinyurl.com/5f6nxu24
Newsletter: http://countercraft.substack.com
Barthes Studies @barthes-studies.bsky.social An open-access, independent, peer-reviewed journal for research in English on the work of Roland Barthes. Based at Cardiff University.
https://sites.cardiff.ac.uk/barthes/
Michael Regan @mlregan.bsky.social PhD on Barthes and Remembrance. Trying to write something else.
Deborah Rose @deborahrosereeves.bsky.social Writing. Reading. Making.
Boppin’ around Europe in a van with m’cats. Working on a novel that for now I'll just call "the Post Office book." It has vampires & poets.
Reading 📖 A Ghost in the Throat
deborahrosereeves.com
https://usps-teach-in.carrd.co/
Sam Sacks @ssacks.bsky.social Fiction critic at the Wall Street Journal (https://www.wsj.com/news/author/sam-sacks); editor at Open Letters Review, formerly Open Letters Monthly (https://openlettersreview.com/) sam_sacks [at] hotmail
Yiyun Li @appletwigli.bsky.social Fictioneer
farsouthproject @farsouthproject.bsky.social Des Barry author Chivalry of Crime, A Bloody Good Friday, Cressida's Bed @JonathanCape; Far South @serpentstail. Shorter prose New Yorker, Granta, 3ammagazine. Butoh Performer. Film/poetry links
vimeo.com/farsouthproject
https://overlapping.vercel.app/home
SemprePhi @semprephi.bsky.social This train’s got the disappearing railroad blues
James Dalrymple @jamesewand.bsky.social Teaching/lecturing in France. Occasional academic.
Cinema, books, music, vintage television, podcasts (usually while cooking for the family), teaching, life in France etc.
Film reviews at: letterboxd.com/jamesewand/
David Collard @davidcollard.bsky.social Autheur. Unfluencer.
'The Beckett List' (2027)
'A Crumpled Swan' (2025)
'Multiple Joyce' (2022)
All published by www.saggingmeniscus.com
(No DMs)
Paul Hearn @paulxhearn.eurosky.social collagist & bricoleur 🗡️ rudimentary bookworks 🏺 flimsy pages 🔮 cruddy archives ⚖️ papery
https://paulhearn.neocities.org/
River Eagan @river-e.bsky.social poems when stars and teeth align § daily pets for dogs § they/them
@bhousepress.bsky.social @bhousepress.bsky.social Fiction, poetry, non-fiction, and everything in between: https://linktr.ee/BoilerHouse
daily bunnies 🐇✨ @dailybunnies.bsky.social your daily dose of bunnies ⸜(｡˃ ᵕ ˂ )⸝♡
Magedah Shabo @magedah.bsky.social education writer | academic editor | English language instructor
author:
📖 Techniques of Propaganda & Persuasion (Prestwick House)
📖 Rhetoric, Logic, & Argumentation: A Guide for Student Writers (Prestwick House)
📷 botanical photography
🖋️ micropoetry
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
Paintings of London @paintingsoflondon.bsky.social London depicted by artists past and present.
“By seeing London, I have seen as much of life as the world can show.” Samuel Johnson.
Curated by @jamadden.bsky.social
https://linktr.ee/paintingsoflondon
@henricole.bsky.social @henricole.bsky.social 
Darren Maggs @darrenmaggs.bsky.social Bearded. Music, books, QPR, cats, a boxy vehicle and a Shetland jumper.
Maureen Langloss @maureenlangloss.bsky.social Writer in NYC. Former Attorney. EIC Split Lip Magazine. Copper Nickel Editor's Prize | BASS Distinguished Story | Kenyon Review | Ploughshares | Artist-in-Residence @ South 85 Journal | Next up: CHEEKS | http://maureenlangloss.com/
Martina Dalton @martinadalton.bsky.social Poet | First collection, ‘Midnight at the Saltmarsh’, published by The Gallery Press, May 2026
@reader321.bsky.social @reader321.bsky.social I love books and most bookish people
Deborah @deborahzafer.bsky.social Reading, writing, rabbits 🐇 ✡️
Director of European Writers Salon @saloneurope.bsky.social
London
www.deborahzafer.com
https://substack.com/@deborahzafer
Pete Ward @phenryward.bsky.social Books, art, theatre, and telling people I liked the thing they made. Weird / Gothic short stories published or forthcoming in Cosmic Horror, Macabre, Frost Zone, Rat Bag and elsewhere. Editorial reader at Gavagai.
Jennifer Mosier @jennifermosier.bsky.social Actor, director, artistic multi-hyphenate. Half-Asian since before it was cool. Bring on the cats. And the video games. Newly arrived to Canada.
Sarah O @palimpsest22.bsky.social Mainly poetry in independent presses, art, glass, theatre & people playing. Allotment life. York with Glasgow links. UK.
Not every act of kindness is part of a plan.
Website :www.sarahowriter.com
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.
After Octavian @afteroctavian.bsky.social Sintesa. Bibliophile. Lieder Enthusiast. Operavore. Balletomane. Gourmand. Oenophile. Eavesdropper Extraordinaire. She/Her They/Them
Ted McClelland @tedmcclelland.bsky.social Father of Lark, Birch and Rose. Author of Chorus of the Union. Contributing Writer, Chicago magazine
Amina Memory @aminamemorycain.bsky.social Writer. Los Angeles. Thinking about books & art and aesthetic & transcendent experience. aminacain.com
Orion Magazine @orionmagazine.bsky.social Inviting readers into a community of caring for the planet—justly, sustainably, and joyously. orionmagazine.org
Margarita Nafpaktitis @nafpaktitism.bsky.social Librarian by day. Even more maladroit in person! Sundry book and textile arts, cross-cultural gastronomica, and ever taller piles of things on every available surface. Always hoping for funny, but ending up at earnest. she/вона/она/ona/αυτή
❌👑 ❌🤖 ✅🗳️ ✅📖📝
Elie @eliedgo.bsky.social Wife. Mum. Worker bee. Writer. Linguist. Reads a lot. Cats. Tea. Music. Owner of a frankly unnecessary amount of hair. She/her.
marta 🍓 @tinkerwoolf.bsky.social i like moss and reading
‘96 ꕤ she/her ꕤ esp/eng
literal.club/mrt
Matt @mattdaedalusk.bsky.social Reader, artist, more to come 
Eleanor Fitzsimons @eleanorfitzsimons.bsky.social Writer/Researcher. KeatsShelley Essay Prize, Rubery Book Award. Author Wilde's Women. Life & Loves of E. Nesbit, Selected Articles from The Woman’s World. Here for books, art, nature, laughter & tranquility.
BoredMaud.co.uk @boredmaud.bsky.social Rebecca, creator of Bored Maud greetings cards and accessories.
A little bit sweary.
#artist #smallbusiness #wrestlesky #nature #gardensky
🩷💛💙
www.boredmaud.co.uk
https://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/BoredMaud
Deborah Vass @deborahvass.bsky.social Artist and printmaker, sketching in the Norfolk countryside and writing about neglected women artists on Substack.
Susan Bernofsky @translationista.bsky.social Writer, translator, teacher, aspiring alpinist. She/her