Chris Weatherspoon @cweatherspoon.bsky.social Football Finance Writer at The Athletic UK | Will write about money for football | Views are not someone else's
𝗦𝗧𝗢𝗥𝗜𝗘𝗦/𝗧𝗜𝗣𝗦: 📧 cweatherspoon@theathletic.com
🔗 https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/author/chris-weatherspoon/
¡Forward, Russia! @forwardrussia.bsky.social Leeds-based rock band, mostly active 2004-2008
FionaCK @fionack.bsky.social Mother of 3, head of copy, bleeding heart Liberal, Disney obsessive & #LUFC fan.
Stranger Than Paradise Records @strangerthanrecs.bsky.social Vinyl only Record Shop in Hackney, E8. We stock the best new releases & reissues. 24/7 mail order or 'click-n-collect' service.
linktr.ee/strangerthanparadise
www.strangerthanparadiserecords.com
https://dice.fm/venue/stranger-than-paradise-records-bbv6k
Benjamin Myers @benjaminmyers76.bsky.social Extremely humble legend. Writer of JESUS CHRIST KINSKI, RARE SINGLES, CUDDY, THE OFFING, THE GALLOWS POLE (BBC/Shane Meadows), THE PERFECT GOLDEN CIRCLE etc. Books: https://bio.site/benjaminmyers
Jamie Smart @jamiesmart.bsky.social I make comics. Bunny Vs Monkey, Looshkin, Megalomaniacs, Flember, Fish Head Steve, Max And Chaffy, and Super Duper Bunny League coming to Nickleodeon in 2024!
Dave Haslam @davehaslam.bsky.social Hacienda DJ, journalist (Guardian, LRB, etc), writer (recent books about Sylvia Plath, Keith Haring, Picasso). “An exceptional writer” - Olivia Laing.
George Morley @georgeisediting.bsky.social George as in The Famous Five. Books, nice dinners, flowers, cats and rage against the state of things. Erstwhile publishing person.
Jon Savage @jonsavage.bsky.social Author, archivist, professor
Hettie O’Brien @hettieobrien.bsky.social Writer at the Guardian: First Edition and Guardian Long Reads | Author of THE ASSET CLASS
Musa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social Author, musician. Co-founder and co-host of the Stadio football podcast. musaokwonga.com
Jon Dunn @jondunn.bsky.social Leftist in Leeds. Leeds United supporter. Cat person. Vegan. Green Party member. Motorsport enjoyer.
new modern books @newmodernbooks.bsky.social passions, pastimes and popular culture
www.newmodernbooks.co.uk
Nige Tassell @nigetassell.bsky.social Paperback writer.
Latest book – Truly Gifted Kids: A Book About A Band Called Prefab Sprout
Five stars – Mojo
'A beautiful thing' – Tim Burgess
'Charming, compassionate and utterly entertaining' – Mirror
'A terrific book' – Mark Ellen
@tricky1273.bsky.social @tricky1273.bsky.social Bald bloke with a wonky eye…Viuda de Bielsa
Danny F lover
Leeds Lit Fest @leedslitfest.bsky.social 6 - 14 June 2026. Returning for its eighth year, the award-winning festival of words aims to bring together, and help develop, the city’s literary scene, with writers, poets and performers from Leeds, Yorkshire and beyond!
#LLF26. www.leedslitfest.co.uk
Daniel Rachel @danielrachel.bsky.social Musician-turned-Award Winning Author
Andrew Leyshon @andrewleyshon.bsky.social Economic Geographer. Co-author, The Rise of the Platform Music Industries (Agenda, 2025) with @allanwatson1.bsky.social & FinTech Capital (Zone, 2026) with @paullangley.bsky.social. Attended obscure Welsh Comprehensive of which even Elis James was unaware.
Barry Glendenning @barryglendenning.bsky.social Journalist and broadcaster. Brixton via Birr.
https://t.crdtg2.com/331727/5165?aff_sub5=SF_006OG000004lmDN
Tom ⚡️ @sparkeface.bsky.social Artist, Football fan, Leeds. No AI
Shop: TomsShop.co.uk
Sign up for discounts and new stuff: TomsShop.co.uk/#signup
#LUFC
Mark Watson @watsoncomedian.bsky.social One of the Daily Telegraph 50 Funniest Comedians of the 21st Century (49th). Also an author. And producer. And a whole life away from work if you can imagine.
Adam Simcox @adamsimcox.bsky.social Films/books/photos/scripts. Spurs masochist.
Literary rep: Harry Illingworth @ DHH Film rep: Emily Hayward-Whitlock @ The Artists Partnership
Adelle Stripe @adellestripe.bsky.social Average enthusiast. Scribe for hire. Author of Black Teeth and a Brilliant Smile, Ten Thousand Apologies, Base Notes and all the rest …
https://www.adellestripe.co.uk/
Guillem Balagué @guillem-balague.bsky.social Football author, journalist, storyteller, YouTuber, club chairman. CBS Sports, BBC 5Live, LaLiga TV, Biggleswade United.
📧 George@blueprintx.co.uk
📚 david@davidluxtonassociates.co.uk
IG: @guillembalague
Adam Hurrey @footballcliches.bsky.social Writer & editor at The Athletic | Creator & host of the 𝗙𝗢𝗢𝗧𝗕𝗔𝗟𝗟 𝗖𝗟𝗜𝗖𝗛𝗘𝗦 podcast, for my sins | linktr.ee/footballcliches
Helen Ganya @helenganya.bsky.social 🎶🇹🇭🏴 | 💆🏻♀️😶🌫️ ’At Least Once’ new single out now
helenganya.com
Josey Back up North 🦚🇬🇧🇪🇺🇺🇦 @joseybackupnorth.bsky.social The 4.5%, Leeds fan, sciency, gardener. Married to a Baggies fan. #mot #alaw #lufc #wba
Marcus 🏳️🌈🇧🇧 @marcusjdl.bsky.social Gay with husband and a dog called Dusty. Left wing due to life experience. Transphobes not welcome. All the man, all the man you need. From Stoke and Lancashire but living in glorious Londonistan! he/him. Vote Green.
Elizabeth Alker @elizabethalker.bsky.social 
Paul Stokes @stokesie.bsky.social Filling in time between serious news items…
@beaumerchant.bsky.social @beaumerchant.bsky.social 
Kate Barker @katebarker.bsky.social Literary agent. Always looking for something interesting. www.katebarker.net.
Joanne Harris @joannechocolat.bsky.social Writer. Yes, that one.
(she/they)
www.joanne-harris.co.uk
Trevor Phillips @trevorphillips.bsky.social Designer, rigger and compositor for animation. Credits include: Not A Box, Duck & Frog, Dave Spud, Simon’s Cat, Peppa Pig, Mr. Bean, Cramp Twins
I also draw stupid stuff
https://substack.com/@studiotrev
I’m NOT that guy or that guy
Joel Morris @gralefrit.bsky.social Writer & highwayman.
Ladybird, Cunk, Wipe, Be Funny Or Die, Framley, Candidate band, Comfort Blanket, Broken Veil etc
https://ko-fi.com/gralefrit
AGENTS, website, links, bio etc: www.gralefrit.co.uk
Samira Ahmed @samiraahmeduk.bsky.social Bride of Art. Presenter:Front Row, Newswatch, Art of Persia @SquareWindowPod.bsky.social. 20th Century Society Pres. BFI Film Classics Bk on A Hard Day's Night out now: https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/hard-days-night-9781839029394/
https://samiraahmed.blog/
Tommy @tommy-lufc.bsky.social Be a believer, believe everything
You’ll be right half the time
Louie Stowell @louiestowell.bsky.social Writer/illustrator of the LOKI: A Bad God's Guide books, Writer of Otherland & The Dragon in the Library. https://louiestowell.com. No terfs. Many fluctuating fandoms incluing BtVS + Doctor Who. This feed isn't for kids.
Bryn Law @brynlaw.bsky.social I cover Leeds United for LUTV. I also watch Wrexham AFC as a lifelong fan. I also teach at Leeds Beckett Uni and coach coaches for the FA of Wales. And other stuff, lots of other stuff…
Ben Whitelaw @benwhitelaw.bsky.social Founder and editor of everythinginmoderation.co. Co-host & writer of ctrlaltspeech.com puns. Media consultant by day. #LUFC fan by birthright.
Pete Fowler @petefowlerart.bsky.social Painter, illustrator, printmaker & sculptor. Open every other Tuesday on Soho Radio.
Sign up to my patreon, visit my shop, listen to radio shows and more down there.
https://linktr.ee/petefowler
Manu Ekanayake @manueky.bsky.social Oh God, this is just what we do now, isn't it? Just go from platform to platform like some kind of ongoing Littlest Hobo scenario
Keith Cameron @keithcameron2.bsky.social Contributing Editor, MOJO magazine.
168 Songs of Hatred and Failure: A History of Manic Street Preachers out now. keithcameron.co.uk
The Trades Club @thetradesclub.bsky.social Music venue & socialist members club in Hebden Bridge, West Yorkshire.
By the people, for the people
thetradesclub.com
Norman Records @normanrecords.com UK vinyl specialists. The best music, the best service, the best prices.
https://www.normanrecords.com
Andrew Male @andrewmale.bsky.social Writer and arts journalist. MOJO, Guardian, and The Sunday Times. Sight & Sound's TV columnist.
Bear Tree Records @beartreerecords.bsky.social Independent Record Shop in Sheffield, UK
Ted Kessler @tedkessler.bsky.social Former editor of magazines that no longer exist.
Paper Cuts published by White Rabbit http://bit.ly/PaperCutsTK. More recently: To Ease My Troubled Mind: The Authorised Unauthorised History of Billy Childish
Also, http://thenewcue.substack.com
Audrey Golden @audreyjgolden.bsky.social Author.
🔸I Thought I Heard You Speak: Women at Factory Records
🔸Shouting Out Loud: Lives of The Raincoats
🖋QUEERCORE 33⅓ Genre Series
FORUM Books / the bound / The Accidental Bookshop @forumbooks.bsky.social Three lovely, friendly, award-winning independent bookshops in Corbridge, Whitley Bay + Alnwick
https://www.forumbooksshop.com
Events: https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/forumbooks
Verdant Brewing Co @verdantbrew.bsky.social We make fine hop-forward beers, unfiltered and vegan.
📍 Cornwall, United Kingdom.
Our Venues: Verdant Taproom (Penryn), The Seafood Bar (Falmouth), The Seaview (Falmouth) & Schooners Beach Bar (St Agnes)
linktr.ee/VerdantBrewingCo
Heavenly Recordings @heavenlyrecordings.bsky.social Independent record label est.1990.
Believe In Magic.
Follow us on Bandcamp for up to the minute news of new releases, restocks and limited editions.
👉 https://heavenlyrecordings.bandcamp.com/.
📧 Sign up to our mailing list: https://bit.ly/2MTuvJR
Beren Cross @berencross.bsky.social Leeds United writer with The Athletic.
Nihal Arthanayake @therealnihal.bsky.social I wrote a book about the art conversation and I host a podcast for the BBC where I have amazing conversations with fascinating guests.
Paddy Gunn @paddygunn.bsky.social #LUFC fan in the Alps. Square Ball contributor, Swiss football enthusiast, and host of the Swiss Football Podcast @swissstadia.bsky.social
Lisa Owens @lamowens.bsky.social writer & screenwriter
Books: NOT WORKING (Picador, 2016) & NATURAL DISASTER (Virago, coming summer 2026)
Film: DAYS OF THE BAGNOLD SUMMER (2019)
Ellie Nightingale @ellienightingale.bsky.social Doing marketing things @orionbooks.bsky.social
Anna F. Walker @spyglassart.bsky.social • Children’s bookseller
Spyglass Books @spyglassbooks.bsky.social
• Artist/Illustrator
My art and prints 👉 http://spyglassillustration.com
• Edinburgh dweller
• Tennis enthusiast
Sarah Turner @sarahlturner.bsky.social Ecommerce mostly. In previous lives a Costa book awards judge (2019) and a bookseller. Find my books highlights on Instagram under https://www.instagram.com/sarah_l_turner/profilecard/?igsh=MTR6eWR4OGhqdGd3bw==
Hennah Sandhu @hennahsandhu.bsky.social 📍London
🖊️Writer
📖Marketing at orionbooks.bsky.social
✨The Printing Charity Rising Star 2024
✍🏽Shortlisted for the PMJ Undiscovered Writers Prize ‘23
https://www.instagram.com/bookswithhen/
Kirsty Capes @kirstycapes.bsky.social ☀️ Author of Careless (2021), Love Me Love Me Not (2022), and Girls (2024) ☀️ Care experienced ☀️
Andrew Holgate @andrewholgate.bsky.social Former Sunday Times literary editor. Now writing a book about the death of Mussolini for Weidenfeld.
Harry Illingworth @harryillingworth.bsky.social Pimp of Ink @DHHlitagency. SFF. Speculative. Crime & Thriller. Shortlisted for Literary Agent of the Year 2023
Martha Sprackland @marrrtha.bsky.social Editor, writer and translator. Dark Night: Poems & Selected Prose of John of the Cross (Penguin Classics, 2026)
https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/462137/dark-night-by-cross-st-john-of-the/9780241699294
marthasprackland.co.uk
Ed Wood @edwoodagent.bsky.social Literary Agent and Director of Fiction Development at The Blair Partnership.
Fiction, crime, thriller, mystery, book club, gothic, horror. All views my own.
Submissions: https://www.theblairpartnership.com/literary-agents/ed-wood/
David Squires @davidsquires.bsky.social Illustrator, cartoonist, five-a-side gun for hire.
Anna Mazzola @annamazz.bsky.social Writer. Very small. Books normal size. THE CLOCKWORK GIRL, BOOK OF SECRETS etc. Writes thrillers as Anna Sharpe.
Also a criminal justice lawyer and a dark history geek.
Adam Crafton @adamcrafton.bsky.social ✍️ I am a journalist at The Athletic
🏆 British Sports Writer of the Year
🇺🇸 Recently relocated to NYC
Ed Morrish @edmorrish.com Leeds man & audio/comedy producer. Work stuff @leadmojo.co.uk
My posts, since you asked: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:zhglb2ub3qwkn2kpxlwekst3/feed/aaaaqszrsfcwo
Miguel Delaney @migueldelaney.bsky.social Chief football writer at the Independent. Author of 'States of Play'
Sarah Fortune @s-fortune.bsky.social 📚Work in publishing
📍Newcastle
tash 🍂✨☕️ @natashagracebooks.bsky.social freelance book marketer 👩💻 living in greenwich, london 📍loves a bit of spice (in books & in my coffee) ☕️✨ currently writing: the fatale 🖤
Paraic O’Donnell @paraicodonnell.bsky.social Writer | The Naming of the Birds (Jan. 2025) l The House on Vesper Sands | Lives in a very small way.
https://vspr.st
Kate Appleton @culturalkate.bsky.social Publicity director at Oneworld Publications.
Amnesty International Feminist Network Committee Member.
Yorkshire living in London.
Abi Fellows @abirfellows.bsky.social Literary Agent DHH Literary Agency 📚 Shortlisted for Literary Agent of the Year 2023 📚 Trustee at New Writing South 📚 (she/her) No query DMs pls.
Jonathan de Peyer @jondepeyer.bsky.social Editorial Director, Non-fiction @HarperNorthUK
📌 The false azure in the windowpane
Not changing the world, one platform at a time.
Purely personal, except when it isn’t.
Jonny Sharples @jonnygabriel.bsky.social Jonny Sharples (English pronunciation: /ˈdʒɒni ˈʃɑːpəlz/) is an 'online joker'[1] and an ambassador for @theCALMzone.[2] He is a great blueskyer.[citation needed]
Anna Pallai @annapallai.bsky.social Literary agent and PR at AMP Literary
www.ampliterary.co.uk
Specialising in women’s narrative non-fiction
David Coates @oziasmidwinter.bsky.social Bangs on about Taylor Swift and books a lot. Was events manager for Blackwell’s Manchester, now with @serenitybookshop.bsky.social Nero Book Awards Fiction Judge 2023. He/him
Charlotte Hutchinson @charhutchinson.bsky.social Senior Publicity Manager at John Murray Press.
Twice shortlisted for a PPC award.
I have the daftest golden retriever in the world.
Mollie Goodfellow @hansmollman.bsky.social Oh god not again (📺🎬: ITG, 📚: Curtis Brown)
Five Leaves Bookshop @fiveleavesbooks.bsky.social Nottingham's city centre independent and radical bookshop, est. 2013
Publishing as Five Leaves since 1995
www.fiveleavesbookshop.co.uk, www.fiveleaves.co.uk
We organise about a hundred events a year. Fast ordering service. Four book clubs.
Miranda Jewess @mirandajewess.bsky.social Publishing Director @viperbooks.bsky.social, the award-winning crime, thriller and mystery imprint of @profilebooks.bsky.social. I like books with a dead body in them.
John Mitchinson @johnmitchinson.bsky.social Writer, co-host of Backlisted, writer for Byline Times, former publisher.
Adam Leventhal @adamleventhal.bsky.social Senior Writer & Broadcaster • Doc maker • Pod presenter • @theathleticFC
FWA / SJA / AIPS audio & written awards winner
Bianca Bexton @biancabexton.bsky.social Editorial Director, Non-Fiction | Headline Press, Hachette UK
Jess Gulliver @jessgulliver.bsky.social Occasional publicist; accidental poet; proper doodler.
London/Newcastle.
Callum Crute @callumcrute.bsky.social Nonfiction commissioning editor at Century. The resident scouser of Penguin 🐧🏳️🌈
Rachel Mann @rachelpmann.bsky.social Literary agent | Sheffield / London | Opinions my own | CLOSED TO SUBMISSIONS for 2025 (& on parental leave from April)
Abigail Fenton @abifenton.bsky.social Literary Agent at The Ampersand Agency
Freelance developmental editor and book coach
🌐 www.abigailfenton.co.uk
✍🏻 https://substack.com/@abigailfentoneditorial
James Brown @jamesjamesbrown.bsky.social Unlikely to complete course. Likes reading, travel, football, water.
Salena Godden @salenagodden.bsky.social NEW novel 'The Life Of Life' publishes March 2027
'The Good Immigrant - 10th Anniversary Edition' out this month, September 2026, Canongate Books
https://salenagodden.substack
https://www.salenagodden.co.uk
David Barnett @davidmbarnett.bsky.social Triple threat:
Journalism: www.authory.com/davidbarnett
Books: www.amazon.co.uk/stores/author/B0034PY7ZW
Comics: leagueofcomicgeeks.com/people/16810/david-barnett/comics
Agent: Laura Williams, Greene & Heaton greeneheaton.co.uk/clients/david-m-barnett
Emily Moran @emilygmoran.bsky.social Head of Marketing @dialoguepublishing.bsky.social 📚• book reader, dog lover, cake baker • @the-bookseller.bsky.social rising star 2022 🌟• views my own • she/her 🎠
CR 📖 The Safekeep
Drift Records @driftrecords.com 🏆 The current best independent record shop in the UK. We've been selling records in Totnes since 1994.
Jon Buckland @pacificbeliefs.bsky.social Freelance Writer.
Dream Smotherer.
London Library Emerging Writer.
Words: Resident Music, The Quietus, Bandcamp etc
https://pacificbeliefs.journoportfolio.com/writing/