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Rose Knapp 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈 @roseknapp.bsky.social Experimental Poet • Sound Artist
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Stephen Delaney @stephendelaney.bsky.social Writer, editor, human. Words in New World Writing, Bending Genres, South Florida Poetry Journal, and elsewhere. Author of the chapbook OUR PLACE IS IN BETWEEN. 💙 #foreignlit #frogs
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Halcek @halcek.bsky.social A speculative writer. https://merveilles.town/@halcek 🇵🇸
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Richard Littler @richardlittler.bsky.social Creator of @scarfolk.bsky.social. "This guy, who apparently saw the future" - Edward Snowden. Running an ASD/ADHD operating system.
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thepoetofcuisine @thepoetofcuisine.bsky.social Writer of "Digital Cicero: A Silk Road Novella", award winning "the Fry Up Triptych", and "Victorian Fast Food", THE dissertation on commercial food in East London
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Elizabeth Land Quant @elizabethlquant.bsky.social MN Writer, queer, #autistic, wife, mom, #disabled 🐈⬛Moss enthusiast
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Tim @treblecleffhorn.bsky.social Retired High School Biology Teacher and District Librarian & College Professor of Communications & Theatre. ❤️My daughter 🏳️⚧️ @captainsarahbee.bsky.social. Model railroader. Musician🎹. Pickleball teammate. Colorado Native. NO DMs
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J. C. Jones @thejcjones.bsky.social Author of the best selling Louisa Moss detective series.
Ex-nightclub boss and, due to carelessness, owner of only half a lung.
Poems and Limericks daily.
Based in Hereford, UK.
Seamus Connolly @seamusauthor.bsky.social Scottish based author. Gritty crime thrillers with laughter, love & tears.
Free Palestine 🇵🇸
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Michelle MacGregor @thlittlegeneral.bsky.social Full time carer to Alzheimer’s Mum and shared care of my Nonagerian Gran while balancing #Exit and Succession Planning; community ownership models ✊
Michael Ironheart @michaelironheart.bsky.social I am a self published indie author who has released 2 books, with a 3rd on the way
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Poetry in Aldeburgh Festival @poetryinaldeburgh.bsky.social A poetry festival by the sea under the big skies of East Anglia. Thurs 5th to Sunday 8th November 2026. ☀️📚🩵
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First Novel Prize @firstnovelprize.bsky.social Writing competition for unpublished and independently published novelists. Entries close on the 31st of May. Judged by Sally Williamson (Transworld) and Hayley Steed (Janklow & Nesbit). Organised by the Literary Studio. Bloomsbury, London
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Ellen Peirson-Hagger @ellencph.bsky.social Deputy books and arts editor, the Observer
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Tony Dunnell @tonydunnell.bsky.social Writer of fact and fiction ( #scifi mainly, some horror). English but living in the high jungle of Peru. Short stories published in Escape Pod, Fusion Fragment, Fission, Sci Phi Journal and more. I also post about #movies. https://tonydunnell.com/
Michael Langan @michaellangan.bsky.social Liverpudlian-Lisboeta, writer, editor, teacher, mentor, feminist, anti-fascist, 🏳️🌈 sissy, trans-affirming, anti-racist, pro-Palestine, etc. https://www.lumebooks.co.uk/book/shadow-is-a-colour-as-light-is/
Rawhead @rawheadjournal.bsky.social Open to submissions of creative nonfiction and visual art. We believe in the power of art and literature as form of resistance.
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S. S. Greene @ssgreene-author.bsky.social Author of The Circus of Chaos Universe. Office/School Secretary by morning, reader and writer by night. Owner of a small petting zoo of three horses, three goats, three guinea pigs, a dog, and an outdoor cat
Heather Milligan @hrmilligan.bsky.social Research Fellow at Loughborough University // contemporary lit, ecocriticism, and American culture // writing a book called Ecogothic America and the Twenty-First-Century Novel (forthcoming Edinburgh University Press) // she/her
Milton Keynes Literary Festival @mklitfest.bsky.social A fabulous festival of books, writers, words and ideas! In-person, online and in the community year round, and also on X, Instagram, Facebook, Threads, YouTube and Spotify.
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