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Slightly Foxed @slightlyfoxed.bsky.social The magazine for people who love books | We also publish limited-edition memoirs & biographies and produce a well-loved literary podcast.
foxedquarterly.com
helen @hejparry.bsky.social children's writer, cat wrangler, time waster
A Scrap of Moss & Magick out 8 October 2026 with @dfbstoryhouse.bsky.social
pre-orders: https://tinyurl.com/4suv7bh9 | https://tinyurl.com/m9h8d2fe
cover art: Melissa Castrillón
British in Belgium
she/her
Rather Good Art @rathergoodart.bsky.social Publishers of rather good greetings cards, postcards & prints by Ravilious, Nash, Klimt, Simon Palmer and many more.
https://www.rathergoodart.co.uk
Enaid Smith @enaidh.bsky.social Books! Reading! Probably a Socialist! Endless supply of exclamation points!
Independent Lit @independentlit.bsky.social Celebrating the UK's independent literature. For those who read adventurously.
https://substack.com/@independentlit
@royakhatiblou.bsky.social et al.
Independentlituk@gmail.com
Terena Elizabeth Bell @terenabell.bsky.social Book publicist & fiction writer
TELL ME WHAT YOU SEE (Whiskey Tit, 2022)
Words in The Atlantic, Playboy, Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, Tough, etc
Kentuckian in NY
Keeping this a politics-free space.
Aeon Magazine @aeon.co Aeon is a magazine of ideas and culture. Visit aeon.co for more.
Nicole Hayes @nicolehayes.bsky.social PhD. YA author (Penguin Random) jnr fiction (Hardie Grant) non-fiction (Black Inc / The Guardian). Podcaster with The Outer Sanctum / The Writers' Retreat. Living on Wurundjeri land with 2 humans & 1 dog. She/her. https://linktr.ee/nicolehayes
Matthew M C Smith @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social Wild eyed Welsh poet. Anti-discrimination, democracy, rights, transcendence.
Susie Lindau @susielindau.bsky.social Screenwriter, blogger, and Gothic thriller writer. Artist and Wild Side podcast host. Directionally challenged adventurer. I'm here for the #writingcommunity! No random DMs, please.
https://susielindau.com/
For inquiries: susielindau@gmail.com
ForthWrite2 @forthwrite2.bsky.social Scottish & European. Writer mostly, now; was lecturer. Love literature, culture, languages, natural world. Environment & climate issues. Fed up with X. 
Jamie Etheridge @lescribbler.bsky.social Winner @fracturedlit Anthology II
Long List Wigleaf Top 50
Words: @xraylitmag @jmwwjournal @bendinggenres @essayingdaily @reckonreview @antiheroinchic @pitheadchapel @storySouth +
LeScribbler.com
James McPherson @suplexicon.bsky.social chronic illness || fiction || pro wrestling
Philip Taylor @philipjtaylor.bsky.social Commercial and Agricultural Property Solicitor. Companion of John Ruskin's Guild of St George.
Niamh NicGhabhann Coleman @niamhroisin.bsky.social Cultural historian. Associate Professor, School of History & Geography, University of Limerick. Current book project -the development of Catholic architecture in Ireland, 1780s-1950s. #CeaseFireInGaza https://pure.ul.ie/en/persons/niamh-nicghabhann-coleman
Paul Kavanagh @kavcarter.bsky.social The Killing of a Bank Manager (Honest Publishing, 2011)
Iceberg (Honest Publishing, 2012)
Everybody is Interested in Pigeons (Sagging Meniscus Press, 2026)
Electra Rhodes @electrarhodes.bsky.social Writer. Digger. Rustic. Thief.
Wait...
*Taps mic*
Is this thing working?
Work on/in/with
BBC Radio 4
Best Small Fictions 2023
Emerging Writers The London Library 22/23
W/C
ND
She/Her.
Beacon Press @beaconpress.bsky.social Your favorite nonprofit indie publisher of radical nonfiction since 1854.
beacon.org
Vita Sackville-West @thegardenvsw.bsky.social V. Sackville-West: In Your Garden (1946-61); Some Flowers (1937); Letters to VW (1923-41); Passenger to Teheran (1926); Twelve Days (1928). https://x.com/thegardenvsw?s=11
Carol @silentdandelion.bsky.social 
Roisin Meaney 💙📚 @roisinm.bsky.social Made in Ireland a long time ago. Cats, books, tea, spotty bananas. Trying to learn the ukulele.
Pub by Hachette Ireland and Sphere Books UK.
23 novels with my name on them - never gets less astonishing. Teasing out next.
Be kind, it's easy.
Redwall Feasts Bot @redwallfeasts.bsky.social Delicious descriptions from the kitchens at Redwall Abbey // every four hours // artwork by Christopher Denise // powered by @bluebotsdonequick.com
Deryn Rees-Jones @notjustdancing.bsky.social Poet, editor, critic
https://liverpooluniversitypress.blog/tag/pavilion-poetry/
https://www.serenbooks.com/seren-author/deryn-rees-jones/
https://thamesandhudson.com/paula-rego-the-art-of-story-9780500021378
Sarah Pyke @sarahpyke.bsky.social teaching children's and YA literature at the University of Münster
london.ac.uk/seized-books | #QueerBibliography
close reading forever
helped make this: https://www.pagemasters.co/shop/seized-books-lgbtq-books-and-censorship-in-1980s-britain-a-catalogue
Maggie @maggielangford.bsky.social Walking, inspired by nature, history & heritage, shortlisted Working-Class Nature Writing Prize 2022 - Pre-Raphaelite Soc The John Pickard Essay 3rd Prize 2023
Dora Zhang @dorazhang.bsky.social stretching my internet capacities
John Grindrod @grindrod.bsky.social Social historian of modern places. Tales of the Suburbs, on LGBTQ+ history, out now. Wrote Concretopia and Outskirts. Disappointingly unserious. Podcast: Monstrosities Mon Amour
Find out more: https://linktr.ee/johngrindrod
archelect @archelect.bsky.social Aspiring writer, obsessive reader, amateur human. Home is the beautiful city of Oxford.
T @reading-woman.bsky.social Reader, writer, English teacher, deputy head, trustee, eater, drinker, hiker, swimmer, music lover, news junkie, dabbler...
Mark Thompson @markreckons.bsky.social Politics (mainly UK and a bit of US), comedy and popular culture more generally.
Hear me on a radio near you blathering about Burnham or Farage. Probably.
Political Sandbox here: https://substack.com/@politicalsandboxmark
Cormac MacFhionnlaoich @cormacscoast.bsky.social Hiking guide providing walking tours along Ireland's Atlantic coast
Cliffs of Moher, Burren,Slieve League
Zoology
Marine Biology
Geology
Botany
Local history
Shreya Ila Anasuya - THE POISON PALACE @thresholdrose.bsky.social author. phd scholar. rose on the threshold. myth, memory, history, poetry. short fiction in strange horizons, fsf, and anthologies including 'a case of indian marvels'. for debut novel pre-orders and info: https://linktr.ee/shreyaila.
Ciarán O'Rourke @corourke91.bsky.social Poet with @irishpages.bsky.social / PhD on WCWilliams 📚
Prose in An Clogán, DRB, Hard Crackers, Headstuff, Jacobin, New Hibernia Review, Novara Media, Rundale, Rupture, Skylight47, Strange Matters, Studies, Verso (blog).
Website: www.ragpickerpoetry.net
Molly Crabapple @mollycrabapple.bsky.social Artist. Author of NY Times bestseller HERE WHERE WE LIVE IS OUR COUNTRY: STORY OF THE JEWISH BUND
my book: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/646320/here-where-we-live-is-our-country-by-molly-crabapple/
Mollycrabapple.com
Mollycrabapple.substack.com
Andrew Wittkop @awestfell.bsky.social books, images, place
LITERARY VOYAGERS forthcoming from Belt Publishing
https://andrewwittkop.com
Eugene Navakas @enavakas.bsky.social Lit. Ph.D. turned TV writer. Learning photographer. Art junkie. Most recent non-screenwriting at Elsewhere and New Square.
Sacred Parasite @sacredparasite.bsky.social Publisher
Books Made in Berlin since 2023
www.sacredparasite.com
Peigi MacKillop @peigibheag.bsky.social Heritage, archaeology, cooking, art, fashion, Gaelic, Berneray. Ex-librarian, ex Oracle admin. I have my books, and my poetry to protect me. 💙 NHS
Aidan Fitzmaurice @fancyvegaspro.bsky.social I write comedy and kid's stuff & also do various workshops with people of all ages.
Galaxy Fest, Storytime Takeover, Ranger Rae, The Skewer, News Quiz, Now Show & more
2024 - 2027 Arts Council Ireland YPCE Bursary
https://www.aidanfitzmaurice.com/
Jack Shoulder @jackshoulder.bsky.social 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
Writer, historian, wants to make the world a better place
#TodayInQueerHistory
Hotties in Art out in Autumn
Co-writer and Co-Curator of @museumbums
For events and books check out:
https://linktr.ee/jackshoulder
Breakthrough Books @breakthroughbook.bsky.social An award-winning indie publisher putting creatives and readers first, with lovingly made, quality books… and a fair deal! E-shop now open on our website!
https://www.breakthroughbookcollective.com
https://linktr.ee/breakthroughbooks
Catherine Redford @catherineredford.bsky.social Poet | Researcher | Co-editor at Dust Poetry. Forward-shortlisted debut poetry collection, ‘The Way the Water Held Me’, out now. Magma Selected Poet.
https://linktr.ee/catherine_redford
Ashley Davies @msashleydavies.bsky.social Arts journalist (comedy specialist), Times Scotland (Alba) and Metro mainly. Scotsman comedy reviews during Edinburgh Fringe. Wanging on about birds all year round.
North Berwick, near Edinburgh. She/her
Prof. Liz Oakley-Brown @earlymodlancs.bsky.social Educator
Passionate about Equality, Diversity & Inclusion (EDI)
Anywhere near Books, Music and Films
#SurfaceStudies
#Soil_Imaginaries
Adores Snails 🐌
My personal views - not my employer's
Reposts &c not endorsements
Dr Eleanor Baker @eleanormaybaker.bsky.social Lecturer in Medieval English and AFY English Subject Lead (Ox) ¶ Author of BOOK CURSES for Bodleian Publishing ¶ Being critically creative @guildmedmak.bsky.social ¶ Liker of material texts, medieval folk horror, university access & print making ¶ She/her
The Cosmic Shambles Network @cosmicshambles.com Independent creators of content for the curious. cosmicshambles.com | patreon.com/cosmicshambles| youtube.com/cosmicshambles
Paul Cezanne @cezanne.bsky.social Bot account of Paul Cezanne, a French artist and Post-Impressionist.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_C%C3%A9zanne
@chloelewis.bsky.social @chloelewis.bsky.social 
Robin Cooper @robincooper1.bsky.social Photographer, walker and socialist living in Coniston, love France and Switzerland.
Davis Eastwood @davis-eastwood.bsky.social History, reading, writing, and role-playing games
He/Him
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. 
Mathew Lyons @mathewlyons.bsky.social Writer, historian. FRHistS. Recent work: History Today, The Spectator, Slightly Foxed, New Humanist, Engelsberg Ideas.
Dr Charlie Gardner @charliejgardner.bsky.social Conservationist, activist, writer and researcher, rebelling against extinction
The Gallery Press @thegallerypress.bsky.social Leading literary publishers of contemporary Irish poetry, drama and, occasionally, prose.
Funded by the Arts Council/An Chomhairle Ealaíon.
Robert Bloomfield @lunebread.bsky.social Poetry lurker
Emma Cameron @ecameron.bsky.social Author of A Scattering and Our Precious Earth.
Writer, climate activist, artist, lover of wildlife particularly dragonflies and bats. #ClimateJustice
Brian Groom @groomb.bsky.social Ex-Financial Times Assistant Editor. Ex-editor Scotland on Sunday. Author of 'Made in Manchester' and 'Northerners: A History'. 'These Isles' due Feb 2026.
The Pig's Back @thepigsback.bsky.social The Pig's Back is a literary journal based in Donegal. Edited by Dean Fee + Emily Cooper. Produced by the Regional Cultural Centre, Letterkenny.
Philip Miller @philipmiller.bsky.social Five novels, including The Diary of Lies: A Wall St Journal and Airmail Mystery Book of 2025. Poetry collection: Blame Yourself (Nine Pens). The Goldenacre won a Shamus. https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/series/E8G/a-shona-sandison-investigation/
@the-writingschool.bsky.social @the-writingschool.bsky.social The Writing School Online was founded by Kathryn Bevis in 2020 and we are here to help you find your creative voice and build a writing community.
Katie da Cunha Lewin @kdclewin.bsky.social Writing + teaching. The Writer's Room OUT NOW; new project on professionalism and amateurism. Co-editor of @c21literature.bsky.social
Rep @charlotteseymour.bsky.social. kdclewin.com
Brian Boyd @brianacadia.bsky.social Writer of fiction, poems, and arts journalism. Teacher and forever student. 
Jen @jenmarch.bsky.social Just being shy at the moment
Breda Spaight @bredaspaight.bsky.social Collection: Watching for the Hawk, finalist in the Farmgate Cafe National Poetry Award '24. Arts Council Lit. Bursary. Forward Prize s/list Best Poem Written '23.
Stephanie Burt @notquitehydepark.bsky.social poems, pop music, superheroes, lit crit, SFF, friends, trans joy. Cats, dogs, kids. Way too accommodating. Swiftie. https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/stephanie-burt/taylors-version/9781541606234/?lens=basic-books
Rewilding Britain @rewildingbritain.org.uk The official Bluesky for Rewilding Britain NGO 🌱 🐳
Our aim is the mass restoration of ecosystems so that nature and people can thrive.
#ThinkBigActWild #Rewilding
Joelle McTigue 📷 @joellemctigue.bsky.social Artist examining memory as unstable matter shaped by movement, repetition, access, power, and erasure. Madrid. joellemctigue.com
Eloise Kane @eloi.se Archaeology, writing, research, cheese. PhD in hares.
📖 Wilderlands: The Human History of Wild Britain (April 2026)
Ferrier of children. Normally lost.
Catherine Ogston @catherineogston.bsky.social Flash fiction, short stories and longer fiction. YA ms going out on submission. Rep: Al Guthrie, The North Literary. 2026 Scriever for the Federation of Writers (Scotland).
K Martin 💙📚 @katiereader.bsky.social Reader, writer, mother, lawyer, and lover of all things bookish. Woke as anything. Cambridge & London
Sophie Yeo @sophieyeo.bsky.social Editor of Inkcap.
Author of Nature's Ghosts: The World We Lost And How To Bring It Back.
Tony Juniper @tonyjuniper.bsky.social Nature recovery. Writer. Chair Natural England. Fellow CISL. Chair Cool Earth. Council Member Fauna & Flora. Former Friends of the Earth, Wildlife Trusts, WWF, BirdLife International. www.tonyjuniper.com
Martin @botanicalmartin.bsky.social currently writing 'Finding England's Ancient Grassland'
Botanical surveyor and artist based in the Tees Valley, England.
If it's about plants, I'll be interested.
http://theintermingledpot.wordpress.com
Rachel Ward @racheltranslates.bsky.social FITI, Literary & creative translator, German & French to English: children's/YA and crime fiction, history; proofreader, bookworm; food, crafts, history; cats; climbing; cycling; she/her; Twitter: @FwdTranslations Mastodon: @FwdTranslations@zirk.us
Anna Opanasenko @anna--o.bsky.social PhD candidate in English literature at the University of Freiburg. Medievalism and contemporary retellings.
Luke Wright @lukewrightpoet.bsky.social Poet.
linktr.ee/lukewrightpoet
Ailsa Ross @ailsaross.bsky.social Author by a frozen lake
Hovel, a novel, out with Strange Light / Penguin Random House March 2026
Holy Fools substack
Ailsaross.com
Elfie Picket Theatre @elfiepicket.bsky.social Dundee based theatre company making radical new work incorporating music, poetry and whatever we fancy in that moment.
D H Fowles @danielharveyfowles.bsky.social Artist, naturalist and social scientist
East Anglia
Louise Foster @louisefoster.bsky.social @SfpLouise on X, much prefer to be here!
Anti Brexit, pro immigration, humanist, (actually Marxist), studied & am passionate about politics & economics. Hate current journey of travel in UK, US & on X. Diminished by Long Covid, Fibro, ME & PoTS.
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
firstnovel.co.uk
Mike Strickland @stricklandia.bsky.social Querying THE END OF THE WORLD CLUB. Award-winning author, 2026 Writers of the Future winner, creative writing MA, world traveler. Writing about writing at stricklandia.substack.com
Mary Mackey, author @marymackeyauthor.bsky.social Poet, New York Times bestselling author of Paleolithic Era novels, nonfiction writer, award-winning screenwriter.
https://marymackey.com/
Ali Riley @aliriley.bsky.social Sheffield-based HE Education Developer and Adviser. Interests #ESD and #EntEd. Ex-archaeologist. Bit deaf. Living with Endometriosis. Chapter maggot.
Mass Observation Archive @massobsarchive.bsky.social An archive of everyday life, thought and feeling in the UK. Based at The Keep in East Sussex. Find out more at massobs.org.uk
Find out more: massobs.org.uk
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Pamela Colloff @pamelacolloff.bsky.social Reporter at ProPublica. Staff writer at The New York Times Magazine. Author of CATCH THE DEVIL, to be released by Knopf on July 14. https://www.pamelacolloff.com/
Orchard Notes @orchardnotes.com #Orchards, #Fruit, #Cider &c posts by @darrenturpin.bsky.social
#Orchard enthusiast & amateur pomologist based in #Manchester, UK
Pro Gardener @ National Trust Quarry Bank
#orchardist & #allotment #fruitgrower
website: https://orchardnotes.com
Clarry @cenderby.bsky.social I can't be bothered to read something you couldn't be bothered to write
Longden Calling @longdencalling.bsky.social Shropshire
📷 and 🖊️by me unless not
Profile pic Ingrid Thulin in 𝘈𝘯𝘴𝘪𝘬𝘵𝘦𝘵 (𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘔𝘢𝘨𝘪𝘤𝘪𝘢𝘯, Ingmar Bergman 1957)
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manwhohasitall @manwhohasitall.bsky.social Satirizing the patriarchy since 2015.
New book Flipping Patriarchy out now!
https://linktr.ee/manwhohasitall
The Victorian Society @thevicsoc.bsky.social The national charity campaigning for Victorian and Edwardian Built Heritage. Join us!
linktr.ee/victoriansociety
Non-Governmental & Nonprofit Organization in England and Wales
BuriedInPrint @buriedinprint.bsky.social 📚📝🔁
Work: Chicago and LA Reviews of Books, EVENT, Literary Ladies, prism international, The Temz Review, Vol. 1 Brooklyn and World Literature Today.
Member: @bookcritics
Dr Matt Lodder @mattlodder.com Senior Lecturer in Art History, University of Essex. Trustee, Bishopsgate Institute. Law Student. Historian of tattooing. Podcaster @beneaththeskinpod.history.tattoo. 'Painted People' and 'Tattoos' out now. ADHD.
Morag Rose @thelrm.bsky.social Walking artist-academic-activist The LRM (Loiterers Resistance Movement). #Psychogeography, Vegan, Crip, #OurIrwell. Maker of Creative Mischief. Lover of public space, sad songs, DIY maps + Doctor Who. She/they The Feminist Art of Walking 20/10/25 (Pluto)
Rebecca Goss @gosspoems.bsky.social More on Instagram @gosspoems
Poet & mentor. Books with Carcanet Press. Poet-in-Residence for CW+, the official charity for Chelsea & Westminster Hospitals. Writing for Life Fellow with the Royal Literary Fund.
LET THEM EAT BOOKS THE PODCAST @letthemeatbooks.bsky.social Let Them Eat Books is a podcast by Colin Herd & Claire Reynolds about all the food you have & haven’t tried in all the books & poems you have & haven’t read.
Streaming weekly wherever you get your podcasts
🍽️📚📖✌🏻 https://bit.ly/LetThemEatBooks
Tobias Jones @tobiasjones.bsky.social Italy-based journalist & award-winnning writer: Ultra, The Po, Blood on the Altar, A Place of Refuge, The Dark Heart of Italy, Utopian Dreams etc. Carpenter, listener, teacher - always co-building communities (Windsor Hill Wood, Common Home etc.) NSNO
Bethan Hutton @bethanh.bsky.social I was @yabunonaka1 over there. Books, art, dogs, wildlife, Japan. Ex-journo, still news addict. London, often Wales and Norfolk.
Limerick Literary Festival @limericklitfest.bsky.social The Festival will run in Limerick 27.02.26 - 01.03.26 at the Belltable, O’Connell Street. The event continues to honour the life and works of the Limerick author, Kate O’Brien while attracting prominent writers from all over the world.